First, the latest TTM Consulting Newsletter, People Will Leave Your Life, based on two posts ago, is available and has gone out to all my subscribers.

I was reading an article earlier on how the social networking site Facebook, is going through a redesign, which is going to launch at the beginning of June. I had two immediate thoughts when I read the story.

The first is that it needed a redesign. I like Facebook, but information isn't organized properly at all. Every person who's there for networking purposes has their information in different places, instead of it being in the same spot on every page. That makes it difficult to see what people do, especially when it's couched with all those applications and other stuff that many Facebook users have on their site.

The second was just how impressive it was, at least to me, that a company with as many visitors and subscribers as Facebook would even think about messing with a product that many people have already gotten used to. In their past, they've made small changes here and there, but nothing as drastic as what's supposedly coming. This one will make some people, like me, very happy, whereas others, those primarily there for fun, might not like it as much. Still, Facebook isn't afraid to make that kind of change.

And neither was CNN a few months back, when they made some changes to their site. The same goes for Yahoo, which is overhauling its own site even as people are still debating its process in working with Microsoft.

My thought was that if large companies like this have recognized that they have to continually make changes to their infrastructure, why is it that so many smaller businesses, managers, and even employees, are resistant to change? I'm not all that different in some things. I still wear the same brand and type of shoe that I started wearing back in 1967 (larger size, of course), because it's still the most comfortable shoe I've ever worn. I still buy all the same brands of food products; at least those that still exist. I know what I'm getting with my favorites, and I still like them. What's funny is that my mother, who I learned such loyalty from, now is open to experiencing more things than I am when it comes to food; when did she become so flexible, and when did I become so rigid?

All of us have to be ready to make changes in our lives, both personal and professional, if we want to continue to improve and grow in some fashion. Those changes don't have to be major; sometimes, even small changes are enough to get things moving in a different direction. I started that today, when I made some relatively minor changes to both my business homepage and my bio page. Nothing major, as I said, but the changes will help focus just a bit more on what my business is all about.

And there may be more changes to come also; no promises, though.