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Zach Messler

Director of Product Marketing, Appian Corporation

Zach Messler is the director of product marketing for Appian Corporation. www.appian.com

Articles by Zach Messler

Three Prerequisites to Addressing Change

Why is change often so tough? We become tied to what we know. We turn our actions into habit. We become comfortable with how things get accomplished. And, it is when this "how" broadly becomes comfortable, that we—as people, as leaders, as technologists, as workers—are at risk of becoming stagnant; our organizations at risk of becoming irrelevant. Especially now in the era that Gartner has aptly coined "Big Change," we have to be open to new ideas, new technologies, new ways of conducting business . . . .