“People wish to be settled:  Only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.”

One thing that can be said of adversity—like the economic challenges of the past thirteen months—is that it “unsettles” us. The old way of doing things stop working and we are forced to find new ways of doing things. And yet, often it is during these unsettling times that we discover how to integrate new realities into our lives and our work that set the stage for future success. Maybe one of the jobs of leadership is to make sure that things in our organization are always a bit “unsettled.” By cultivating a moderate disequilibrium, we remind ourselves of the wisdom of the words of Nobel Laurate Juan Ramos Jimenez: “A permanent state of transition is man’s most noble condition.”