‘It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.’
Alan Cohen

Five Days

A book that explores coming to terms with a change in thinking. The book opens with Jim, the improvement manager for a struggling organisation arguing that the improvement programme that he has designed to save the business, won’t work and shouldn’t be followed.

He’s unsure why his thinking has made an about turn, in fact he’s unsure about most things, and the fact that he’s in his bosses office saying the things he is would feel quite surreal if he had the time to compose the thought. The only thing he does seem sure of is that he’s convinced that the way they’ve been planning to do things won’t work, and somethings got to change.

His manager’s patience quickly reaches breaking point and he faces an ultimatum. ‘You’re either with the company, or against it, and there’s no place for people who are against it.’

He has five days in which to untangle his thinking and explain how the organisation can be saved. The story follows his struggle to turn his conviction from a gut feeling, into something he can understand and share. On the way he discovers not only new things, but new ways in which to understand.

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Picture: Extract from ‘Waves of Change’ by The Sunset Artist