Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 6, 2017

After reading nearly 30 new books about leadership this past year, my pick for 2016's best new leadership book is, Mastering the Challenges of Leading Change , by H. Technically, the book came out in the fall of 2015, but gained its popularity and momentum in 2016, hence my selection as my 2016 pick. James Dallas.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 31, 2014

It hits on a Friday which typically means writing and development… no keynotes, no consulting gigs, no teaching the MBAs… sadly no reason to wear a costume. Your next weekday (Halloween) chance is Monday, October 31st 2016, although I’ve found excuses to dress up at all times of the year. Go for it. Let’s make more.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Often, the default reaction is resistance. Pragmatic leaders anticipate the reactions that others may have, and try to develop arguments and justifications for their idea. Pragmatic leaders have a vested interest in the development of their ideas, and are determined to see them to fruition.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

This month we are featuring Instigator Ann Van Eron , founder and principal of Potentials , a global executive coaching and organization development consulting firm. ” The best moments in her career have occurred due to the leadership program she developed based on the OASIS process for open-minded conversations.

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Experience to Lead

MARCH 29, 2021

For business leaders focused on how to develop a growth mindset, it can be painful at times, but it is a powerful driver of success. He was USA Archery’s High-Performance Manager and an Assistant Head Coach from 2012-2016, after achieving the highest levels in the sport as an athlete. They have growing pains. Focus on Self-Awareness.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Last week, Apple released its latest Diversity Report. Apple claims that from July 2016 to July 2017, half of its new hires in the U.S. Here’s what I would suggest that Apple do to drive diversity and inclusion at the firm: Understand the Resistance: Because people are ethnocentric (i.e., In the U.S.,

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 20, 2016

The scene was the 2016 ZurichFest, a three-day street fair that envelops the Swiss city every three years. Leaders also know that change can create resistance. And they recognize resistance that may be borne in part out of a “fear of the unknown.” How Today’s Leaders Manage Culture Change.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

This post is a part of our 2016 Lead Change Group Guest Blogger Series. Several years ago I led a professional development workshop for the alumni association of my alma mater. Biologically ironic to our human nature, most people adamantly resist change. Yet it remains one of the only constants in life.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2017

Those skills, while uniquely human, are not what we are typically trained to do and require a deal of messy personal development. Related Interest: Best Leadership Books of 2016. New skills will be needed. Uniquely human skills. Blog Post ). Blog Post ). Grants example is instructive for us today. Best Leadership Books of 2015.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 16, 2016

The development of this attitude of flexibility, accepting that “the answers have changed,” would give an individual or organization a tremendous advantage over more rigid and inflexible competitors. They then resist any change, even positive change that requires them to do something new or different. © 2016 by Brian Tracy.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

In this article I explore three barriers to entrepreneurial action: resistance from within the firm, resistance from within the supply chain, and resistance from the customer. Resistance from Within. The most significant hurdle by far is resistance to change from within. Resistance from the Supplier.

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RapidStart Leadership

DECEMBER 14, 2017

That’s the question that author Adam Grant poses in his 2016 book Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World. In a more recent and modern application, consider how the company Upworthy develops titles for videos it wants to go viral. What does it take to question the status quo and produce something original?

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Strategy Driven

MAY 19, 2016

It actually causes resistance. Information Causes Resistance. We’re actually creating resistance, losing business, destroying relationships, and impeding change. Regardless of how important our information is, it will be resisted until/unless there is internal buy-in for it. But is this true? And we’re wrong. Here’s why.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 5, 2016

How do you manage your CP’s biases, triggers, filters, and assumptions to expand choice and possibility, and avoid unconscious resistance, fallout, and restricted results? Do your current methods of avoiding resistance work? No more delayed sales cycles or lost prospects; no more failed implementations; no more resistance to change.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 23, 2016

I developed a model of How to Change congruently that adopts the new without resistance; I’ve been teaching this in sales, coaching, leadership, and change management. It’s the most difficult aspect of change – creating consistent, habitual actions – because it’s unconscious, systemic, and resistant. All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

They encourage resistance, partial/missed answers, and lies. These questions restrict possibility, cause resistance, create distrust, and encourage lying. These narrow the range of possible responses, often creating some form of resistance or defensive lies; they certainly cause defensiveness and distrust. What Is Change?

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 31, 2016

Momentum is contagious and pushes back any resistance we may face. 3 Ways to Develop a Self-Strategy. Executives spend countless hours on business strategies, so why not spend some time on developing strategies for yourself that are about yourself and will propel you to reach your potential? Consider leaving a comment!

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 23, 2016

While the presenting issue – resolving a budget shortfall, agreeing on a new strategy, or choosing which products to develop – is undoubtedly important, it’s often an unstated, underlying issue that stands in the way of a solution. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. The presenting issue is the real issue.”.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 14, 2016

Cognitive Dissonance: When the content we share – words, questions, information, education, advice, written material – goes against someone’s (conscious or unconscious) personal beliefs and system of Self, we cause Cognitive Dissonance and resistance regardless of the efficacy of the information. I’ve developed them.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 16, 2016

Developed over our lifetimes via our experience and life path and forming the core of our subjective biases, they embody our Identity. Anything that threatens this faces resistance and conflict as part of self-preservation. Because we cause resistance. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 30, 2020

Rather than seizing this as an opportunity to develop a new theory on which I might improve student engagement and learning, I focused not on what was on the minds of my students but on improving my pedagogy; reinforcing, perhaps, how to continue to do the wrong things – things that had no relevance for my students – better.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 7, 2016

When I started up a tech company in London in 1983 and became a ‘buyer’ I realized the problem and developed a new skill set to migrate it. It includes people, systems, implementation, resistance, workarounds, relationships – and comes well before any decision is made to buy anything, and quite separate from any ‘need’.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

it might be just a resource); Social believes that by engaging in relationships over time and developing trust, followers will come back when they are ready. I’ve developed a new way to listen (Listening for Systems) that is non-biased. I learned this as both a sales person and an entrepreneur.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 4, 2016

All change, including adopting new ideas, is threatening to the status quo and will cause resistance unless there is buy-in at the level of beliefs. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Sharon Drew Morgen is a visionary, original thinker, and thought leader in change management and decision facilitation.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

Hiring my trainer made all the difference, and pretty soon I was reaping the rewards of resistance training again. Back in January 2016, I had 45 meetings in the month of January. The other one is mental: I always believe “everyone is a leader and a leader grows another leader” I develop others by sharing a lot of ideas.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Uber has used petitions to demonstrate consumer—and voter—support in at least 10 cities, mostly in North America and Europe, where it has met resistance from local taxi companies. The proposal, which would have benefited on-campus restaurants, stalled in council after the scale of consumer resistance became apparent.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2018

Finally, in 2016, it took a new tack. Each was set loose to develop or acquire products to satisfy those markets. Meanwhile the merchant group developed Working Capital, an in-house experiment in small-business lending that PayPal had also started in 2013. But sales hardly budged.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Total investment (internal and external) in AI reached somewhere in the range of $26 billion to $39 billion in 2016, with external investment tripling since 2013. Resist the temptation to put technology teams solely in charge of AI initiatives. There’s no one-size-fits-all AI solution.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

When one of us (Vivek) and his team launched Roivant Sciences in 2014 and began developing treatments for Alzheimer’s disease — they were determined to learn from the pharma industry’s innovation issues and build a more sustainable innovation engine. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the lowest number since 2007.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

Start by developing a strategy across the entire enterprise that includes a clear understanding of what you hope to accomplish and how success will be measured. Cultural resistance can also become a bigger obstacle than anticipated. What’s the best way to build effective D&A capabilities? Insight Center. Putting Data to Work.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Consider that the basis for the health care market’s inertia — the resistance of the incumbents to changing the volume and direction of the money flowing in the current system — is counted in trillions of dollars. Who willingly will forgo their portion? Surely, this seems like the early stage of realizing Solon’s goal.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2017

Because organizations are increasingly focusing on early talent development to attract and retain young talent, it’s important to understand the best way to accelerate their growth as leaders. Our study was published in Consulting Psychology Journal in December 2016.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2017

Few would argue with that, and even if they did, there is evidence to support the idea that resisting distraction and staying present have benefits: practicing mindfulness for 10 minutes a day , for example, can enhance leadership effectiveness by helping you become more able to regulate your emotions and make sense of past experiences.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2016

Her mother, Kyle Richey, and her co-founder, David Richey, are known for helping luxury service businesses — including hotel, retail, fashion, and professional sports — develop brand-defining service standards. The Richeys invited me to join their product development advisory board.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

That makes bureaucracy the organizational equivalent of kudzu, the invasive, herbicide-resistant vine that has overrun thousands of acres of woodland in the American south. Gore , the high-tech materials company known for its Gore-Tex fabrics, these companies developed their distinctive management practices over decades.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

Yet, in the first quarter of 2016 the company sold only $17 million of Entresto in the U.S. The failure stemmed from resistance in the U.S. Corporations spend a fortune studying aspects of employees’ behavior, developing organizational learning, assessing performance, and providing feedbacks.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

This bad stretch might mean that “you are really struggling” and perhaps in “need of more development,” he says. Resist any overly optimistic impulses. If you’re struggling, it might mean that you need more frequent check-ins with your boss, more development, or a job change. Principles to Remember.

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