Thoughts and Ideas about managing change and the issues of organizational and personal transformation as it relates to the theme of caterpillars changing into butterflies. There are a series of poems and quips and illustrations designed to add some color and brightness to the issues and opportunities. This is part one of three. Caterpillars can fly, if they would just lighten up!

1. Thoughts on Change
Teaching the
Caterpillar to Fly
PART ONE
of three
Some poems and quips about issues,
possibilities, perceptions and choices.
by Scott Simmerman, Ph.D.
Managing Partner of Performance Management Company

3. The illustration, Square Wheels One, is our representation of how things really
work. You can find a lot more about this in my article called Teaching the
Caterpillar to Fly --you can download free from my website. It expands on this
notion greatly (www.performancemanagementcompany.com/category_s/105.htm).
For this caterpillar and butterfly framework on managing and leading change, we
start with a joke and then bridge to the theme of change, resistance, perceptions
and possibilities. You can find the joke and the context in the article.
For operational purposes, you might view this as operating more like this:
The main theme is that caterpillars can fly, eventually, but they need to lighten up!.

5. The cartoon, images, poems and other materials share some of our thinking about change.

8. There are real themes of
inevitability, change and potential. But one
must also beware of the birds, which love
caterpillars as food to grow their own
young! Competition is like that, you know…

10. I hope that you liked our
Thoughts on Change
and our series of poems, quips and
other metaphors around the theme of
Teaching the Caterpillar to Fly
For the past 30 years, we have supported trainers and
consultants with simple and effective toolkits for managing
and leading change and for innovation and team building.
For the FUN of It!
Scott Simmerman, Ph.D.
Managing Partner of Performance Management Company
www.PerformanceManagementCompany.com