{"id":3554,"date":"2026-05-12T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/?p=3554"},"modified":"2026-04-16T14:20:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T14:20:56","slug":"three-tragedies-of-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/three-tragedies-of-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Tragedies of Change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Certainty can feel safe &#8230; but certainty is different from clarity (an awareness that leads to a decision). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartbrief.com\/original\/the-fulcrum-point-of-change-why-transformations-stall-before-they-begin?utm_term=0D8D01C3-DCB4-4CFF-B855-A92CDA28919B&amp;lrh=2763b2151d2a144eedea60da23622eb970684a3c77df4b2ce285eac6defa7295&amp;utm_campaign=77F8DA5B-9982-431B-9E20-444163A3CF79&amp;utm_content=43FBB41C-E6FC-4E63-9975-D434F2F8E660&amp;utm_source=brief\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">article<\/a> from the world of business, Marlene Chism writes about the &#8220;fulcrum point&#8221; of change, and why transformations often stall out before they even begin. And the core principle that she discusses also applies to leadership in schools. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Certainty can feel safe &#8230; but certainty is different from clarity (an awareness that leads to a decision). In this article from the world of business, Marlene Chism writes about the &#8220;fulcrum point&#8221; of change, and why transformations often stall out before they even begin. And the core principle that she discusses also applies to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,557,728],"class_list":["post-3554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-leadership-styles","tag-marlene-chism","tag-tragedies-of-change","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3555,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3554\/revisions\/3555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}