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Resistance and Change – A Personal Experience | Aspire-CS

Persuasive Powerhouse

Thought-full Thursday: Starting From What Is » Resistance and Change – A Personal Experience September 22nd, 2010 | Author: Mary Jo Asmus This is a more personal post than I usually write. The biggest challenge I experienced was that of letting go of my own resistance to accepting that I had something to learn.

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7 Ways to Enjoy Others at Work

Persuasive Powerhouse

Stop striving and resisting. The effort it takes to strive and resist keeps us from seeing the people right in front of us who can help. Striving and resisting causes stress and makes us focus on ourselves instead of others. It relieves stress and allows us to be more open to others. What are you pushing uphill against?

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Servant Leadership Observer ? November 2010

Modern Servant Leader

September 20, 2011 Servant Leadership. Monthly: September 2011. August 2011. April 2011. March 2011. February 2011. January 2011. Holocaust and the 2008 Financial Crisis – Leadership Lessons in Resistance. Servant Leadership Observer – April 2011. Leadership. Technology.

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Change Your Tune

Persuasive Powerhouse

Our guest post today is by Mary Jane Mapes, author of three books, the most recent of which is You CAN Teach a Pig to Sing – Create Great Relationships … with Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere. You can learn more about Mary Jane below this article. We all encounter people who are hard to like and difficult to communicate with. This was not easy.

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10 Surefire Reasons to Try Feedforward!

Marshall Goldsmith

They tend to resist negative judgment. The result is a much more dynamic, much more open organization—one whose employees focus on the promise of the future rather than dwelling on the mistakes of the past. He was also selected as the World’s Most Influential Leadership Thinker in 2011. Try it for yourself and see!

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Fostering Shared Responsibility - a Guest Post by Ed Brenegar

Kevin Eikenberry

It has the highest resistance to adapting to changing circumstances. The resistance of the organization’s structure to change remains the primary obstacle to a well functioning, fully aligned organization. The reason is that the system of organizaiton is always the last to change.

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There Will Always Be "Others"

Chris Brady

It is the resistance they provide which builds the muscle - as long as the possessor of the muscles is willing to work against that resistance. Posted by: Cathy - Team Rascals | January 12, 2011 at 08:49 PM Wow. Posted by: Sherri Emerson - NY Musketeers | January 12, 2011 at 11:04 PM Chris: Awesome post.