Change happens - understanding is hard work

"You can only understand life backwards, but we must live it forwards." - This famous Kierkegaard quote runs contrary to the innovation rhetoric which sees innovation as progress while truth is that innovation is our effort to keep up with change in the environment without changing ourselves. Trying to understand backwards is about finding patterns, finding the breadcrumbs I dropped on my way out, it is about coming home, about having changed and discover it.