CHANGECHANGE“You never step into the same river twice”. Heraclitus

THE SEASONSTHE SEASONSSPRING/ SUMMER/ FALL/ WINTER

WINTERWINTER

FREEZING

SILENT

DARKNESS

DANGEROUS

SOLITARY

SPRINGSPRING

REBIRTH

RENEWAL

RE-EMERGENCE

COLORFUL

FRESHNESS

SUMMERSUMMER

BRIGHTNESS

SUNLIGHT

LEVITY

ACTIVITY

HAPPINESS

FALLFALL

PREPARATION

TIMELESS BEAUTY

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FLEETING

UNFORGETTABLE

THE MYTH THE MYTH OF OF

PERSEPHONEPERSEPHONE

HOW THE SEASONS EMERGED

PERSEPHONE PERSEPHONE AND AND

MOTHER MOTHER DEMETERDEMETER

Goddesses caring for nature

D. rejects all love gifts to daughter

Persephone disappears

D. allows nothing to grow on Earth

Starving humans cry to Gods

HADES:HADES: LORD OF THE LORD OF THE UNDERWORLDUNDERWORLD

Brother of Zeus

Abducts Persephone near river

Tricks Persephone with pomegranate

Persephone condemned for eternity

Forced by Zeus to return her to Earth

PERSEPHONEPERSEPHONE’’S S RETURNRETURN

Zeus sends Hermes to confront Hades

Hades agrees and compromises

Persephone and Demeter reunited

The Earth is productive once again

A solution is reached; explains the seasons

4 months underworld = WINTER/FALL

8 months above = SPRING/SUMMER

SEASONS, CHANGES, CHARTS:SEASONS, CHANGES, CHARTS:What season is What season is your companyyour company in? in?

THE BUSINESS THE BUSINESS SEASONSSEASONS

What SEASON is your company in? Internally? Externally?

How do you ADJUST to the different economic seasons? How to BRIDGE them?

Which companies RESPECT the seasons? Is Natura an EXAMPLE? Which balance?

WHO is your winter? What is your greatest FEAR for change?

How do true leaders ACT under change? How does a COMMUNITY of managers/workers ?

How do you LEARN to deal with change? Which companies have actually DIED? Kodak?

What COMPROMISES must one make for cultural conflict resolution in MERGES?

What is the BEAUTY of marketing change? Apple Inc.?

BUT MOST IMPORTANT: How have YOU changed?

CHANGE: CHANGE: “There is nothing wrong with

change, if it is in the right direction”. Winston Churchill