Revisiting Again | Change or Evolve in 2025?
Commentary by Farrell Tan Back in 2020, I wrote about the tension between “change” and “evolve.” We were all staring down the disruptions of the big “C,” trying to figure out whether real progress comes from forcing change or letting ourselves evolve. I’d shared this small anecdote i.e., a teenager insisting his parents had changed him, while they countered that he had simply evolved : picking what to adopt, what to ignore, and how to apply it. It was a family debate, but the truth of it stuck with me. People rarely change because someone tells them to. They evolve because the environment nudges them and because they choose to. Fast forward to 2025. Different buzzwords, new fires to put out. Yet the same question keeps creeping back in: do we change , or do we evolve ? Change is noisier than ever You don’t need to look far. AI is rewriting job scopes faster than HR can keep up. Hybrid work -- once the great hope -- now means half your team’s on mute and the other half’s halfway to bur...