{"id":1698,"date":"2010-10-20T01:00:38","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T09:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=1698"},"modified":"2010-07-04T22:03:52","modified_gmt":"2010-07-05T06:03:52","slug":"balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=1698","title":{"rendered":"Balance"},"content":{"rendered":"

My road bike is a custom titanium racing frame.\u00a0 It was made by a guy in Montana who is probably the cleanest welder of titanium bike frames in the world, the guy\u2019s work is just impeccable.\u00a0 I don\u2019t really need a custom bike \u2013 it\u2019s not like my body proportions are weird or anything.\u00a0 I\u2019m a pretty average guy apparently \u2013 or so my builder (Carl Strong of Strong Frames<\/a>) tells me.\u00a0 However, I was starting to have some problems on the bike I had never had before.<\/p>\n

A few years back, I was riding down a winding road in the rain with my team.\u00a0 We had decided very early on that we would not go fast, but down this road we were probably averaging over 30mph, and it was wet out.\u00a0 I remember feeling pretty good and very comfortable with the person in front of me \u2013 30mph in the rain and being consistently less than an inch from having my front wheel touching their rear wheel is nothing to sneeze about.\u00a0 Then in an instant, the entire world literally went to slow motion.\u00a0 My rear wheel slid out in the water, I remember vividly as my bike stayed upright sliding down the road sideways as I countersteered the bike trying both to keep from crashing and not drift into oncoming traffic at the same time.\u00a0 Years later, my body is still creating new scar tissue.<\/p>\n

I had lost my balance.<\/p>\n

I needed a corrective emotional experience, and I could not do it on my current bike.\u00a0 I had forgotten how to corner aggressively, and while I could walk into any bike shop and pretty well fit on any bike my size, I needed a custom rig that was made especially for a few specific purposes.\u00a0 I needed a bike that would make me corner well again and give me confidence.\u00a0 Carl decided that he would lower the entire bike ((For those who know bikes, he lowered the bottom bracket height by 5 millimeters)).\u00a0 This minute adjustment lowered my center of gravity by just enough that the wheels would be a significant amount stickier than any other bike on the road.\u00a0 I also asked him to put the top tube of the bike exactly where my inside knee hits in a corner so that I could use it as leverage in corners. ((I point my knee towards the bike, not into the corner like most people \u2013 I use the knee to push the bike upright in a corner, even while I\u2019m pushing on the inside of the bar to countersteer.))<\/p>\n

Every now and again in HR, we need a corrective emotional experience.\u00a0 Our customers get so frustrated with us, complain about inaccurate data, complain about cumbersome processes, ask finance to check our numbers because they think all of our reports are wrong.\u00a0 Singe bad experiences in key meetings or transactions can haunt us forever, and sometimes the only fix is a new vendor or a \u201creimplementation.\u201d\u00a0 Sometimes the fix is spending a ton of money to show the organization that we\u2019re fixed.\u00a0 While this is not ideal, and while there are often less costly ways of straightening ourselves out, from a change management perspective, our customers sometimes just want us to get rid of the original culprit.<\/p>\n

In the psychiatry world, they call these corrective emotional experiences.\u00a0 Until you have a corrective experience, the last negative experience is just going to linger with you, and you\u2019ll be skeptical of anything with the same roots as the single bad experience.\u00a0 It\u2019s suboptimal, but when there is no other way around it, a corrective experience might just mean throwing something in the trash and starting over.\u00a0 You don\u2019t like it and I don\u2019t like it, but I\u2019m just saying sometimes it\u2019s necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My road bike is a custom titanium racing frame.\u00a0 It was made by a guy in Montana who is probably the cleanest welder of titanium bike frames in the world, the guy\u2019s work is just impeccable.\u00a0 I don\u2019t really need…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37,47,8,2,34],"tags":[244,243,452],"class_list":["post-1698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-change-management","category-governance","category-strategies","category-hr-technology","category-implementation","tag-balance","tag-corrective-emotional-experience","tag-implementation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1705,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions\/1705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}