Opinion about Francis Bacon quote."We must obey the forces that want to command" is a generic paradox related to understanding the forces or influences that we want to control or manage. If we particularize this quote with change as an external force, we can express it as: "if you want to manage the change, first you have to understand it", or in other words: If you want to be better on change, you have to obey the laws of change.Bacons quote goes beyond the Heraclitus': "There is nothing permanent except change" - translated in several ways, e.g. change is the only constant in life, everything flows and nothing stands still, nothing endures but change and, change alone is unchanging.First argument. Change is inevitable, however we resist it, and resist mightily. It seems that we have an "immunity to change" because we do not know the change process. "The known" causes us a sense of security and tranquility we try to keep at all costs. How? Avoiding change, which prevents us from seeing our benefit and lead to the paradox that constantly live: our only constant is change.To paraphrase Dan Millman, pain is a physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events do not in themselves create suffering. Resistance to changes creates suffering. Quote. Change is never painful; only resistance to change is painful - Buddha Example. The Woody Allen film, "Midnight in Paris" shows in a clear, fun and cool how human beings tend to tie us to the past, what we already know.Second argument. We are living in a fast changing world. We do not have a lot of control over the external changes in our world. What we do have control over, however, is how we react to those external changes. We can do nothing or ignore it, fight against change, or understand it and use it to our advantage. The key is to dramatically improve the knowledge about these external influences, so that we can take advantage of change, instead of change taking advantage of us. Quote. In a fight between you and the world, bet on the world - Franz Kafka Example.Lego Group was one of the most successful companies in the world. In 2003, just three years after both Fortune magazine and the British Toy Retailers Association had crowned the brick the toy of the century; LEGO announced the biggest loss in its history. They tended to fight against world ignoring and underestimating megatrends, and suddenly part of the market switched to video games. In only a couple of years Lego moved from being one of the most successful companies to becoming one under threat. LEGO's founding family appointed a new CEO, who has brought it as the worlds most profitable and fastest-growing toy company with a systematic, sometimes, painful change program begun in 2004.LEGO had to learn the new ruleshandling themto their advantage.