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The more things change, the more they stay the same --
especially in business. And that's the problem, according to
global business consultant, Rebel Brown.  "As much as we all
acknowledge how the world has changed over the last two decades,
businesses and corporations tend to continue doing things the
same way they've always done them," said Brown, a consultant who
has worked with companies as diverse as Silicon Graphics, NeXT
and Verity, as well as startups in the U.S. and abroad.  "I
can't count the number of times executives have told me, 'Well,
that's the way we've always done it.' The truth is that most
companies talk about change far more than they actually engage
in it. That's because they are afraid of making any change out
of fear -- of Big Bang disruption, of the wrong change or of
leaving the safety and comfort of the known. We're stuck in the
way we've always done it -- and that's a big reason why our
economy is stuck in neutral."