QAspire

JANUARY 16, 2011

I couldn’t resist myself thinking about simplicity in a business setting and wondering, “ how many leaders can really do this? Leaders frame complex strategies, use heavy weight terminologies to describe their plans, set up complex processes and use a lot of jargons when communicating for a change.

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QAspire

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Because change is hard and most of the times, we are resistant to change. Many people I know want to quit smoking. We have a lot of “wishes” on improvement, but we often fail to take some real actions. Not only because it pulls us out of our comfort zone, but also because when we initiate a change, we don’t see the end results very clearly.

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QAspire

JULY 4, 2010

Resist conducting unscheduled meetings when they are not needed. This is the final part of this series which is compiled to form a handy and portable summary “ 25 Things Managers & Leaders Should NEVER Do ” ( Download PDF ) If you are a supervisor, manager or a leader at any level, you should NEVER: Conduct long and unscheduled meetings.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Being questioned by people resistant to change is not out of the ordinary, and nothing to be concerned about. link] mikemyatt Hi Tom: Thanks for sharing your insights Tom. Doing things differently is likely one of the things that makes your church stand-out. In fact, it's probably a good sign you're on the right track.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 28, 2022

This has resulted in the share of overall employment in young firms falling from around half of the workforce in 1980 to just 39% by 2006. Indeed, data reveal that rates of entrepreneurship have been in perpetual decline across the United States between 1978 and 2011. in 1985 to 5.3%

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 21, 2017

By the time of this chapter, 2006, I had already put on thousands of miles on road trips throughout the 4 states, had many many conversations with the field staff, and had made some meaningful progress. By early 2006, I had begun to feel a sense of assertiveness and increased confidence in my leadership. Chapter 11.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 30, 2015

Employees simply must be able to make sense of and assign personal significance and meaning to the changes taking place, or their sense of certainty is compromised and they will resist the changes in the short term, and spiral downward in the longer term. And the fundamental problem behind change doesn’t make things any easier. 1 Heine, S.J.,

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Strategy Driven

JULY 11, 2013

He is the co-author of the book, The Mind of the Customer: How the World’s Leading Sales Forces Accelerate their Customer’s Success , which was published by McGraw-Hill in 2006. StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 38a – Overcoming Resistance to Change, part 1 of 2.

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Building Personal Strength

MARCH 4, 2011

I picked it up in an excellent book called Quiet Leadership (2006), by David Rock. Author unknown I've found that it boils down to listening well, resisting the impulse to give advice, then asking appropriate questions to get the other person to continue thinking about the problem. This approach to coaching is different for me.

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Building Personal Strength

MARCH 5, 2011

But in their desire to explore their identity and independence - which are good things - they often resist adult guidance. It has become a passion for me to explain it and to pass along the guidance of experts. One of my favorite experts about the teen journey is David Walsh, Ph.D., author of Why Do They Act That Way?

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Rajesh Setty

AUGUST 17, 2008

I couldn’t resist noticing a bunch of flash card sized photos of Indian Gods there. Last week I was at an Indian restaurant called Bhavika Foods in Sunnyvale picking up something to eat. It is a tiny restaurant but very popular because the food is good. They were so cool that I ended up picking up a few of them.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The company last entered China in 2006 with a censored search engine, but pulled the plug on the operation four years later after it discovered that human-rights activists’ Gmail accounts had been hacked. The ethical case for resisting Chinese regulation is clear. China has long enforced a strict media and information regime.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

I would also suggest resisting the temptation to have all your communications be self-serving. Don’t breach trust - you work far too hard to create a trust bond with your followers, so don’t blow it by not following through on your commitments. Do this and you’ll be viewed as just another sales broadcast.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2018

Back in 2006, McDonald’s saw its growth stall. You also have to resist the temptation to try everything with your customers and hope something will stick. You need to understand trade-offs, and resist seemingly attractive moves that have undesirable long-term consequences. Justin Case/Getty Images. But sales hardly budged.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

I'm so curious it's embarrassing, when I visit a house and I pass a bookcase in the hall I cannot resist scanning their shelves to the point of rudeness to see if there's a good book in there which I haven't read yet. Anthony Rose Thanks for the info, I didn't know that before.

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QAspire

JANUARY 5, 2011

People don’t resist change, but how you try to change them. In most cases, people want to change things for better, and they want to comply. Leaders just have to show them the reason why they should change. Once that buy in comes in, people use process as a tool to be more effective/creative.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2011

Fast forward to the spring of 2006, when I was teaching a course at Emerson College. And — proving the supremacy of word-of-mouth marketing — while I could resist my lone friend two years before, I couldn't turn down a classroom of 25 pleading college students.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Since 2006, hundreds of companies — including global brands like Novartis , Hewlett-Packard , and Rolls Royce — have reached settlements with U.S. After surveying corruption experts and business executives (including one who went to jail for bribery) I identified four strategies: Have a resistance plan for bribe demands.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

In other words, it was the kind of change that Mother Aetna traditionally resisted with every passive-aggressive move she could muster. From May 2001 to January 2006, its stock price rose steadily, from $5.84 (split adjusted) to $48.40 By the mid-2000s, the company was earning close to $5 million a day. billion gain.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2011

In 2006, I started my personal blog, Dare to Dream , and in 2009, I began blogging for Harvard Business Review, both of which accomplished the task of getting published and "finding my voice." Where there's resistance to progress typically there's anxiety focused on know-how and/or cost. F4 = Anxiety around the new solution.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 25, 2012

Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success Chip Conley Free Press/A Division of Simon & Schuster (2012) An “operating manual” from an “emotional concierge” for those who seek meaning in life on the other side of complexity I have read and reviewed Chip Conley’s previous books and with all due respect to them, [.].

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2012

A key to the success of IBM's Sam Palmisano , for example, was the understanding he gained by living in Japan that enabled him to create IBM's "globally integrated enterprise" in 2006. Resist that temptation by observing, listening, learning, and understanding rather than judging. Don't judge cultural differences or local people.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2012

Even Echoing Green's Fellows resisted the title. When the NYU Reynolds Fellowship for Social Entrepreneurship was launched in 2006, I helped her prepare her application and she became a member of the fellowship's inaugural class. This is what I am supposed to do with my life! I thought Ripa was an anomaly and I took her under my wing.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2012

Even Echoing Green's Fellows resisted the title. When the NYU Reynolds Fellowship for Social Entrepreneurship was launched in 2006, I helped her prepare her application and she became a member of the fellowship's inaugural class. This is what I am supposed to do with my life! I thought Ripa was an anomaly and I took her under my wing.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2016

Perhaps Pixar, the creative upstart, would resist being swallowed up by Disney, the waning incumbent. But their unique path to success is less well-known. Back then, many on Wall Street worried that cultural and creative differences would damage the integration.

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LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

In 2006, I studied the integration of artists into churches in Western Canada, as part of my Master’s Major Project. When church leaders “used” artists for their own narrow agenda, the artists resisted or left. I compiled my results into this book. Please email me directly if you would like a copy. Most never returned.

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Terry Starbucker

JUNE 27, 2010

It’s human nature sometimes to gravitate towards the path of least resistance, and I must confess, there were times I succumbed and skipped the doozy. Mary’s University in San Antonio – I wrote another piece about him and his remarkable teaching methods for Rosa Say’s blog back in 2006) Popularity: 2% [ ?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Maybe my favorite example is a memo sent out by the ISI media office in 2006 that basically said, “In order to help us produce better martyr videos, please fill out this form, copy it, and send it back. When you talk to people about these issues, is there gallows humor that people can’t resist?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Maybe my favorite example is a memo sent out by the ISI media office in 2006 that basically said, “In order to help us produce better martyr videos, please fill out this form, copy it, and send it back. When you talk to people about these issues, is there gallows humor that people can’t resist?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2014

As a $3 million baker in Milwaukie, OR, the firm had already outgrown the capacity of its 15,000-square-foot bakery by 2006. Such companies as Dave’s Killer Bread resist the urge to say “yes” to new business that will severely tax the existing infrastructure, no matter how big the top-line potential. Operations Small/medium business'

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

You may find it necessary to bring in professional facilitation if you are running into excessive resistance or acrimony. This is so you can review regularly and with rigorous honesty how you are doing individually and organizationally against the big four issues of transparency (Rawlins 2006): 1.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2016

Their number one answer: employee resistance. In late 2006, Nike broke off relations with its existing supplier in Sialkot amid concerns over labor issues. The first surprise was that few firms adopted the new die, despite indications that it was yielding more pentagons per sheet. We asked owners why not.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2015

A 2006 U.S. The most innovative companies in the world are likewise unable to resist the temptation to fight competition with litigation – even when it leaves them wide open to accusations of the same misconduct of which they say they are victims.

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Women on Business

AUGUST 12, 2011

In one survey, the public cites gender discrimination, resistance to change, and of course “old-boys club” as the main reasons why women have less opportunities and more challenges to make their way up in organizations. 2006, March 22). So why are most of the leaders in modern America men? McKenna, M. 2007, Special Issue: Women).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2011

But let them see that you are resisting some forms of short-term pay or comfort, and you'll get them fired up to do the same. He founded ReputationDefender in 2006 with the belief that citizens have the right to control and protect their online reputation and privacy. See my other post on this here. Nor do you need to live like a monk.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

An organization that grew up producing newspapers, for instance, not only lacks key skills to build a digital content company but also might actively resist embracing the new in order to protect the business it knows and loves. That doesn’t work for a host of practical reasons.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Resist the lure of strategies that depend on a single source of power. market, including a powerful competitor Zocor going generic in 2006 and shifts in policy by payers like Medicaid. Lipitor's 2006 revenues would have secured the spinoff a spot on the Fortune 200. Lipitor also faced a rapidly evolving U.S.

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