Lead Change Blog

MAY 17, 2019

He was the electrical engineer who invented the game “pong” and founded Atari. Resist that temptation. There are a lot of stories about Nolan Bushnell. For a while there in the 1970’s, Nolan Bushnell could do no wrong. Nolan would sit around the living room with his friends and come up with ideas of all kinds.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2017

But what do you do in a context that resists change? In 1943, Lockheed Martin commissioned an engineer to create an experimental team to begin work on a secret fighter jet for the U.S. As a leader, you recognize that when the pace of internal change lags the pace of change in the external environment. well, it’s not good news.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Scott Dalgleish is the CEO at Phase IV Engineering. Scott first encountered Deming’s ideas while an engineer at Proctor & Gamble in 1986. Phase IV Engineering’s quality policy: We Care. What engineering projects do you have going on at home right now. Scott Dalgleish. certifications.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 18, 2021

As much as they want to take the leap on the inside, many leaders resist because their definition of entrepreneur is just too narrow. Entrepreneurs and engineers have a lot in common. Before they even get started down the path of innovation, they decide coming up with fresh ideas and/or securing funding isn’t in their wheelhouse.

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Modern Servant Leader

MARCH 10, 2022

Slim, start the engines. BEN: As a leader, you will encounter resistance. He’s a drunk and he’s let me down all my life. Now you get out of that goddamn bed and you fly. that plane to Ireland or I swear to you, I will. AMELIA: Good. AMELIA: This report indicates some degree of risk. It’s a risk I’m taking.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Where there is defensiveness and resistance, people pull away from one another and erect emotional barriers. The clutch, as you well know, provides the linkage between the engine and the transmission, which ultimately provides power to the drive shaft. It requires shifting into “growth gear.”

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Small and precise radius bends are the order of the day, and heavy-duty truck designers tend to use heavier, more difficult-to-bend piping materials like 409 or 304 stainless steel to manufacture fuel lines, engine tubes structural components, and custom fabrications. Find a Metal Machining Company That Can Do It All.

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General Leadership

MAY 7, 2014

Consider the following: If EQ is to us, what an engine is to a car – then self-regulation is the drive train that powers how we operate. The drive train or transmission of any vehicle, transfers engine power to its wheels creating forward or backward movement. Role-play at different perceived levels of push back and resistance.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The rollout has been slow, however, not least due to the resistance among people to relinquish control of their vehicle. But we can’t just make the same assumptions about AVs because common sense is part of what’s being engineered into their systems in the first place.”. Human driving. What is expected.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 28, 2021

Transformation failures are often a result of an organization that neglects to address the human factor (skepticism, resistance, avoidance). He holds an MBA from Duke University and a bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. Perla is a Principal with Symmetrics Group.

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In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 7, 2014

People are so entrenched in the do more paradigm that they struggle to kill their darlings , dump all of those exciting initiatives, and sacred cows, and resist adding more features to a product. Each engineer has a pet feature they’d like included in Samsung phones. This journey isn’t an easy one. Sure, there will be a fallout.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Transformation failures are often a result of an organization that neglects to address the human factor (skepticism, resistance, avoidance). He holds an MBA from Duke University and a bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. Perla is a Principal with Symmetrics Group.

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The Recovering Engineer

JUNE 3, 2010

In other words, you can only resist so long before you “run out&# of self-control. This longer temptation resistance time increases the odds that the new way of doing things becomes easy to remember before our self control runs out. He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 31, 2016

Because of its resistance to change, of course. Things we take for granted today as can’t-live-without mostly existed for quite some time before demand caught up: robotics; the Web; graphical design software; computerized motor engines; online banking; the smart phone; and wireless broadband devices are just a few.

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Rich Gee Group

MARCH 19, 2014

The average salary for a welding engineer is $48K to $101K. Technical Writing - There is a wide variety of sub-specializations which lean more toward engineering, how-to’s, or investigations. Even at a little company, there’s more random stuff than you would think (DNA, DEA, bacteria, electrical engineering, IT, etc.)

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The Recovering Engineer

APRIL 1, 2014

When I attempt to make the point that they might have more freedom and flexibility than they realize, I often get resistance from new supervisors. As an engineering officer on a submarine, I used to start, run, and shutdown nuclear reactors. Almost all supervisors have at least some flexibility.

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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 28, 2013

Or, “The engineers are always so smug and condescending to us; don’t they understand the pressure we are under!?” These fictions can be seen either as cooperation or resistance ; they are one or the other. Pattern of Resistance. Reinforcing resistance patterns only digs you deeper into frustration. Pattern of Cooperation.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JANUARY 26, 2015

Your rational brain whispers “But the sales……are up” Scenario 2: You have a brilliant engineer on your team that you’ve recently promoted into management. Resistance. You heard excuses, denial and resistance in their replies. Six months of regular coaching your manager passes….then What went wrong?

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The Recovering Engineer

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Resist the urge to take advantage of their show of vulnerability. He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S. He is an engineer by nature, by training, and experience. Just own your contribution. Just forgive graciously. Learn More… What Do You Think?

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Often resistance to change is just the lack of clarity. Taking the time to be clear on what the goal or end of the process will look like and defining with clarity what is expected can be enough to move people and yourself into action. On to the Inquiry: Four questions that can affect the outcome of so much.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

In Great at Work , Hansen reports on a five-year survey of 5,000 managers and employees, including sales reps, lawyers, actuaries, brokers, medical doctors, software programmers, engineers, store managers, plant foremen, nurses and even a Las Vegas casino dealer. They discovered seven work smart practices. You’ve got to inspire them.

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The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

For many years I’ve been facilitating a 360 assessment and leadership development process for a deeply technical science/engineering association. Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine (STEMM) are vital to our economy, climate, health, and well-being. STEMM Leaders Are Less Effective.

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CO2

OCTOBER 23, 2013

The board and CEO of his company were so hyperfocused on keeping inventory low for the sake of efficiency that they didn’t have enough engines available for all their private jets. They wound up having to explain to a high-profile client why his jet had no engine and would, therefore, not be able to take him on his three-week vacation.

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Coaching Tip

AUGUST 17, 2012

Many experts believe one of the reasons behind this stubborn failure rate in organizations, communities and countries is "resistance to change." Most people don't respect their strong immunity to change and, therefore, don't develop the support systems necessary to overcome this powerful and dynamic equilibrium to stay the same.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 17, 2022

When team members are pigeonholed in narrow uninformed roles, they are often left with only one option, which is to resist change as a way of demanding respect.” And second, when team members are pigeonholed in narrow uninformed roles, they are often left with only one option, which is to resist change as a way of demanding respect.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 19, 2014

Historians list 22 inventors of incandescent lamps prior to Edison, but his team’s design improved on the others in three ways: better incandescent material, a higher vacuum, and higher electrical resistance allowing power to be distributed from a centralized source. But the better bulb by itself wasn’t the reason for Edison’s success.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JULY 17, 2016

And when Napoleon enacted conscription for military duty, the lives of soldiers became so draconian and restrictive that as word spread, it produced “mass resistance of a sustained, endemic character,” according to historian Isser Woloch. George Pullman, an entrepreneur and engineer, created a successful company that built luxury railcars.

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Modern Servant Leader

MARCH 29, 2012

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip. With some careful resistance to gossipers and support of leadership, you can reinforce a more positive culture. – Richard Steele. Gossip is toxic fuel to a bad corporate culture. Gossip can be very destructive.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Engineering and creating sustainable advantage is the focus of the new paradigm for strategy management, detailing how the intersection of intelligence and innovation come together to deliver and sustain superior financial performance and value creation.

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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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Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 25, 2017

He’s an engineer by background, and serves as an operations manager for a local branch of a major international building automation company. I’m an engineer. I went to school for engineering. As you began implementing these one-on-one meetings, did you receive any resistance or pushback?

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HR Digest

JULY 5, 2020

But there are still some occupations that are typically male-dominated, not due to any resistance but because of traditional bias, or just the hardships involved or the sheer human power needed to operate. Aerospace Engineer. According to the BLS data, only 9.9 percent of women are engaged in this activity. In the US, only 7.8

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Center for Creative Leadership

MAY 19, 2019

As organizations seek to adapt to changing times, senior executives realize they can’t rely on change through simple restructuring and re-engineering. A general feeling of resistance to organizational change — a.k.a. And for those corporate cultures to take effect, they need buy-in from employees willing to assume ownership.

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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 14, 2012

OR “The engineers are always so smug and condescending with the sales team, don’t they understand the pressure we are under!?” These fictions can be seen as cooperation or resistance , one cannot exist in the same breathe as the other. What patterns can you compare between the resistant and cooperative actions you see?

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 25, 2017

Transformation failures are often a result of an organization that neglects to address the human factor (skepticism, resistance, avoidance). He holds an MBA from Duke University and a bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. Perla is a Principal with Symmetrics Group.

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HR Digest

APRIL 11, 2019

Redesigning the workflow will not only engineer swift recovery from a gradual slump in productivity but will save business owners the cost of trying to change employees’ attitude. Your next “don’t” is the resistance. Underestimating the resistance you will encounter is what you don’t want to do.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 28, 2022

Engines of creation. What’s more, the study found that such is the rush for scale that entrepreneurs were forced to always choose the path of least resistance and homogenize their products for the biggest market possible. This gummed-up process of innovation is not confined to big-company transformation.

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