2015

The Recovering Engineer

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Emotions are the Greatest Barrier to Change

The Recovering Engineer

'I often say that facts dictate the need for change and emotions create the barrier to it. The issue of understanding and addressing the emotional factors that slow change efforts – both organizational and personal – appears in many ways across the landscape of change management and behavior change literature. Changing from one way of doing things (behavior) to a different one always involves loss , and loss triggers powerful negative emotions.