Why change a winning team? It is often funny that in the quest for improvements we tend to shake up the things that were previously working for us even when these strategies or formulas have proven reliable. I see this prominently in the business World where companies are always paranoid about competitors and make changes often without properly capturing the bigger picture.
The bigger picture here is that there are times when a change is premature, or isn't even necessary at all. Of course there are times when we must make prequisite changes, as it becomes necessary to evolve. Yet those times when the changes are unwarranted they speak of a lack of understanding about our current predicament. We often don't take time to do a wholistic accessment about where we are and what we might hope to achieve which has its own consequences.
Yet without a proper review many choose to make some daring changes. The consequences are that sometimes such changes may backfire and set us down a slippery slope. Imagine when your changes bring you down from number one, or somewhere near the top. I probably will never understand it, and why this never ending quest for process improvement doesn't factor in what is already working.
The 'evolve or die' mantra has made a lot of people who are probably on the right path deviate because they want to be seen as on the moving train. My company is of course on this train and I sometimes question some of the decisions we're taking, even though I have no choice but to comply. Call me fashioned, but I don't see why something's that works should be hurriedly discarded in favour of something with unpredictable consequences.