The critical issue is time. Timing is everything. The rapidly increasing velocity of change warps organizational time and space, bending the very shape of our enterprise. We cannot wait as we have in the past to make strategic decisions. A major obstacle to embracing rapid change is that it requires people to unlearn old behaviors if they are to benefit from new learning.
Old habits become a de facto barrier to change until they are unlearned.
Unlearning sounds easy. Just forget the old way and use the new way. Abandon old beliefs and habits, and practice the new ones. If resistance to change were not so great, unlearning would be simple. Change is always confronted by strong forces holding it in check and sharply circumscribing our capacity to react to new conditions.