Wizards of the Waverly Place

These bad days. My fiancee left me with two more exams to go in a week. I keep wondering why the thing that I have chosen for my career and am so interested in can be such a pain in my *** when I have to sit an EXAM. Then I decided to take a break and turned the TV on, channel 43 as usual. Don’t laugh – it’s Disney, my one and only favorite channel.

Bingo, the show just started. Selena Gomez was singing “Everything is not what it seems” in “Wizard of the Waverly Place.” Well, this is not as good as “Zack and Cody” but so much better than “It’s so Rachel” or “Cory in the House.” I happened to pick up the words in the song:

Everything is not what it seems
When you can get all you wanted in your wildest dreams
You might run into trouble if you go to extremes
Because everything is not what it seems

Everything is not what it seems
When you can get what you want by the simplest of means
Be careful not to mess with the balance of things

Isn’t it the essence of Peter Senge’s “balancing system” and the whole philosophy of organizational development interventions? Why do I have to read all those thick, boring books while I can learn all I need from a children’s movie? Hey, all the OD professors, authors and practitioners out there – do what you need to do. I don’t care if it’s theory or best practice. I don’t care even if it’s story-telling techniques or organizational sense-making. But you’ve gotta make your books easy to read. Well, you don’t have to – and you can’t – put your portraits there and make them look as hot as Selena’s. But the least you can do is to learn from her. My best advice for you: watch “Wizard of the Waverly Place” and sing along with Selena’s “Everything is not what it seems.”

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