Last week, I saw a friend out and about. I noticed that she was wearing a surgical boot-thingy on one of her feet. She told me that she had a bunion removed. Stupid me. I appeared interested. So, she told me how they do it. First, they cut the bunion off of her toe. Then they broke her toe and reset it so it was straight. Then they cast it and she goes through the healing process.

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First they cut her. Then they broke her toe. Can you imagine if she didn't have anesthesia? She slept through the whole thing. She was probably sore the next day. The first few steps were probably a little awkward, but after a few weeks, no pain, walking straighter, better than ever.

So, I was thinking. When we work with a company, we're typically hired by the CEO. Some CEO's feel for their employees when we start to make changes that hurt. Cutting out the bad habits, changing processes, breaking up the routine. Employees resist change. They're comfortable with the status quo. They push back and whine. When we don't back down, they turn to the CEO. First they look for sympathy. Then they look betrayed and threaten to quit. It's often painful for the CEO not to step in and protect or comfort their employee(s). Especially when the employee being corrected is a long time employee or even a family member.

But what if the we gave the CEO a good dose of anesthesia? Put them to sleep. They don't have any of the pain. We don't have to worry about the CEO backing down and not supporting the changes. Eventually, we wake them up when we're done. They've got a new and improved sales force and they didn't have to feel the pain.

HMMMM!