"A colleague of [[Winston Churchill|Churchill]] once captured the balance perfectly **when he observed that [[Winston Churchill|Churchill]] “venerated tradition but ridiculed convention.”** The past was important, but it was not a prison. The old ways—what the Romans called the [[mos maiorum]]—**were important but not to be mistaken as perfect**. Think of [[Queen Elizabeth]] … a protector of a timeless institution who somehow never allowed herself to fall out of step with the times. "That’s what the Beatles were talking about when they sang, “Her Majesty’s a pretty nice girl / But she changes from day to day.” And it’s what she proved when she honored the Beatles with the MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in 1965, a move that was intensely unpopular with traditionalists at the time, but, in retrospect, a very necessary step forward for the monarchy’s involvement in British culture." --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[progressing-slowly]], [[change-management]], [[responding-to-change]], [[traditions]], [[humility]], [[leadership]], **Source** -- [[202409150124 - B - Discipline is Destiny]]