Raymund Tamayo

by Raymund Tamayo Think of it like swinging on monkey bars. You have to let go of the bar behind you before you can fully grip the bar in front of you. That is how change works. The old management team leaves. A new one comes in. Suddenly, the meeting times change. The emails look different. Traditional company events disappear. New furniture arrives. The unspoken rules you used to rely on? They don't work anymore. This is the "messy middle" of a transition. When a new management team takes over, it never feels smooth. It feels clunky. They don't know where the files are stored. They ask questions that seem obvious. They change processes that were working just fine before. Your instinct is to say: "This is broken. The old way was better. I’m going to wait until these new people figure it out before I trust them." But that is exactly what the Israelites did a long time ago. In the book of Exodus, the Israelites left Egypt (the Old Way) to go to the Promised L...