Don't be a slave to the slaves of the past

As soon as you start to implement change, you will hear it, "That isn't how we have done it" or "We have always done it this way"  The unstated assumption, that because it has always been done a certain way, that it is the right way.   The argument against change a tautology, we can't change, because we can't change.  Of course, I respect the past, and would never propose change simply for the sake of change, but the argument that we have always done it this way, is among the worst arguments one could offer against change.