Showing posts with label Apple. Show all posts
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Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Making Change in an Apple Pay World

Making Change in an Apple Pay World
Edward Lewellen - I was recently asked by one of the largest international hotel brands in the world to produce a presentation on adapting to change to present at their upcoming international Leadership Conference. I've mentioned the topic as I've presented to groups over the last two weeks and as I've interacted with other business executives and it's made me realize how important this topic is and how much it is needed.

As you've noticed, I chose the title Making Change in an Apple Pay World. The reason is that, in years gone by we used to have to learn the value of hard currency and do the math every time we gave it to someone so that we knew how much change we were to receive. Then came credit and debit cards and the charge was automatic and we didn't have to think about making change. Of course, the latest in the evolution of exchanging value is Apple Pay and others like it. Apple Pay is even easier to use than credit and debit cards and it requires no thinking to make change. So, I use this as an illustration that adapting to change can become easy and automatic if you know the secrets to how we humans are actually made to easily accept change. We do it every day, because "the only constant is change". Most change takes place outside of our awareness; our cells in our bodies are constantly being replaced so that somewhere between every 7-10 years we have a "new" body, our thoughts and beliefs change, businesses constantly change to keep up with, or stay ahead of, their competition, etc.