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Featured Instigator: Ann Van Eron

Lead Change Blog

She then worked with a Fortune 50 company and learned how to manage and lead areas, eventually becoming a corporate officer. The first time I was in a different country working with a multicultural group teaching the program, and influencing the organization, I knew I was doing my life work. 8/2016: Susan Mazza.

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Checklist for Influencers: questions for sellers, coaches, leaders, change agents

Strategy Driven

Most of you are really good at what you do: as influencers, sellers, coaches, change agents, or leaders, your intuition, excellent skills, and history of success guide your ability to facilitate change for your clients. Do your current methods of avoiding resistance work? Not to mention lost sales and difficult implementations.).

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The Problem With Information

Strategy Driven

Information, when used to influence or sell, advise or share, has cost us untold loss in business and relationships. It actually causes resistance. Information Causes Resistance. We’re actually creating resistance, losing business, destroying relationships, and impeding change. But is this true? And we’re wrong.

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Overcoming the Barriers to Corporate Entrepreneurship

Strategy Driven

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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Questioning Questions

Strategy Driven

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.

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Buying Decisions, Buying Decision Path, Buy Cycles, and Pre-Sales

Strategy Driven

By entering only during the final element of choice (vendor, solution), sellers squander the ability to influence the major portion of a buyer’s decision process which has little to do with needs or purchase.

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Closing the Strategy-Execution Gap Means Focusing on What Employees Think, Not What They Do

Harvard Business Review

In 2016 we asked 80 senior executives from 20 countries and 25 industries where they focus their attention throughout strategic execution. People resist and become anxious. Fatigue sets in, morale hits the floor, engagement scores dwindle, and negative narratives circulate about the organization’s ability to manage change.