The Change-growth Distinction

Change is often more an event. Growth is often more a process. Change is an intervention. Growth is an iteration.

With a single email or meeting we can change a team's leader, members, goals, standards, structures, resources, performance compensation, assignments and constraints. Change can be completely dictated and imposed. 

Growth comes from within. It is the iterative, incremental process of expanding clarity in three ways. It is a function of progress rather than pronouncement. 

Growth requires clarity about the good we what to see, clarity about the goodness we have and clarity in how to engage our goodness in realizing the good we seek. It is progress toward good through goodness. The more clarity we have, the more we grow in and through our work. 

Getting to new levels of team culture is a function of growth rather than change. Confusion about this leads to weakening culture. Team culture progresses when growth is at the center of the intention and process.