Time to Change Your Song?

Greetings.  Have you ever had a song stuck in your head?  So stuck that you keep singing it even when you're trying not to?  A song with a very catchy tune or catchy lyrics that just seem to wedge themselves into the singing part of your brain.  If so, there's a new website that promises to help you get the song out of your mind by putting another song in its place.  It's called www.unhearit.com and it describes its purpose in the following way:

• We created this site for those of you that have a song stuck in your
  head and you can't get it out no matter what you do.  Using the latest
  techniques in reverse-auditory-melodic-unstickification technology,
  we've been able to allow our users to "unhear" songs by hearing equally
  catchy songs. So all we're doing is making you forget your old song by
  replacing it with another one…sorry.

Okay.  It's not a perfect solution to the problem.  But it just might spark your thinking about the success of your company or organization.  Because it turns out that having a song stuck in our head is equally common in business.  In fact, it happens all the time.  We get use to a certain way of doing things, or offering a certain set of products and services, or providing customer support in a certain way, or using one approach to train and develop employees until it becomes a song we can't get rid of.  Whether or not it makes sense.  A song that over time makes us less innovative and way less competitive.  And when someone suggests the need to change our tune we rally around the song because we've invested so much effort into learning to sing it.  Even if there are new and better songs to sing waiting to be sung.  The real challenge is recognizing the need to change and to figuring out where to turn for inspiration.

So just for fun I went to www.unhearit.com today to see if they had any new ideas for me so I could finally get one particular Top 40 song out of my head and was pleasantly surprised (or amused) to find their recommendation.  It was an old and somewhat unusual song from, I can only assume, the annals of Russian television.  A song by a fellow named Eduard Khil that is so unique, compared to the songs that typically stick in my head, that it almost instantly became memorable–and even stuck.  You might enjoy taking a look and a listen, and noting the shear joy with which he performs the little known tune "Trololo."

We win in business and in life when we recognize the need to change our
song.  And when we seek to find a new song worth singing.  One that expands our repertoire by adding greater value to the problems and opportunities that demand our attention.

Cheers!