Change Harvesters Take Change | #93

In change-harvesting, we use this word "taken" in multiple senses, but to put it in a single sentence: the change-harvester takes both the substance of and the approach to change from what is already there. We *take* our changes from here, we don't *give* our changes to there. To go from A to B, it is easy to focus all of our attention on B. The change-harvester is saying we can't make effective changes unless we see them as *changes*, as transformations to A. And that implies paying a great deal of attention to what that A is and how it works now. Although "taken" may seem a little shaded or obscure, it's actually at the very center of what it means to change a thing, as opposed to building one. We've touched many times on the difference between greenfield & brownfield. With taken change we see that difference in action. --- You can read the full transcription of this podcast over on GeePawHill.org. Any feedback, you can always tweet @GeePawHill on Twitter, or drop a voice message via the voice messages link here on Anchor. If you are interested in becoming more involved in the Change-Harvesting community, click here to learn how to join GeePaw's Camerata.