Of Hoar Frost and Opportunity

I'm waking here as the lite fog of the overnight is beginning to dissipate leaving behind a subtle frost on the trees and brown high grasses. Such frosty mornings remind me of the fleeting opportunities I chased to capture the perfect photograph of crystal encrusted forests. Seizing these moments of beauty, one walks a fine line between just the right, contrasting light of the low morning sun and the impact that light has on the crystals of ice. A photographer has but a few moments to capture the ice castles in the forests before the energy of the sun begins to melt the scene.

Similarly, the agent of change has but a few opportunities to capture and communicate success of a transformation initiative. Management, quite rightly I might add, has limited patience for efforts that either fail to effectively communicate success or fail to demonstrate any results at all. As the sun brings into focus the delicate prisms of light in a frost-encrusted forest, management should bring the light of the organizational goals to a transformation project. Miss that narrow window of opportunity to communicate value or demonstrate success and you'll have to face the prospect of your hard work melting away under the purifying scrutiny of high expectations and results-oriented criteria.