Scanning my reader this morning I came upon a clip of Bill Gates on The Daily Show talking about his foundation work. Jon Stewart made some comments about change that struck me as very familiar. "Why is it so difficult to get change in our educational system? That seems to be one of the most intractable systems. Either because of the boards that are there or the unions. What is it about our educational system that makes it so difficult to reform?" "Don't public things like school and health care need to have the power to fail? Need to fire the wrong person? It's never going to be perfect. Aren't peoples expectations of what it's supposed to be so precious that you never get change in a positive direction?" I see parallels in this discussion. Replace "school and health care" with organizational change. Still seems to fit. Is there any power in the knowledge that we are all learning to balance fear against our ability to innovate? See video here