N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

People are less likely to resist any recommendations for dramatic change in their area of the business, if it comes in an objective, non-threatening way. For example, providing IT support or delivering legal services could be core activities here. So, value chain analysis makes a nice centerpiece to your transformation effort.

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Common examples include: “It’s just the way things are done here.” “If Clichés such as ‘We’ve always done it this way’ stem from a historical resistance to change. Quick, Impactful Actions against Stagnation In environments resistant to change, swift, targeted actions can create ripples that lead to significant transformation.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 1, 2014

For example, IBM hired Lou Gerstner as CEO in 1990s rather than promoting from within. If a leader assumes their formal authority and position are sufficient to lead, they will quickly run into resistance. Unfortunately, diving deep into operational details carries a heavy opportunity cost.

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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 9, 2013

Resistance to Change and Learning Anxiety. Example – I did this with a team of Machinists. Example – Working with a large Coffee and Bake Shop franchise headquarters wanting the district managers to use Coaching & Feedback as opposed to authority and demands with the franchise owners. Photo Credit. Involve the team.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Most of the time we operate in 4th Gear so we need to learn to use it well. They relate the observation of Elizabeth Paul as an example. Too many people operate without a reverse gear. There are two types of people— responsive and resistant. You hire responsive ones and fire the resistant. Wake Time: 1st Gear.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2019

Fact, you cannot operate a successful business alone. For example, when great leaders are judging, they are doing it in a way which encourages development – which is what you do with eager new talent. Reciprocity: If you’re going to solve difficult problems in the business, you must be able to cooperate with other people.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 10, 2018

Blissfully unaware of how negative perceptions were shaped, he was stunned when called into his boss’s office, and told he was “unpromotable” because he was obstinate,” “resistant,” and “insubordinate.”. We’re required to operate differently, getting work done through others, moving from athlete to coach. I’ve got this.” Version 1.0.

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HR Digest

APRIL 15, 2023

In today’s rapidly changing business landscape, many organizations are turning to workforce AI to improve their operations and increase efficiency. For example, AI-powered chatbots and virtual assistants can improve customer service and reduce the workload on customer service teams. Key Components of AI Usage in the Workplace 1.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

For example, executive coaching is often likened to general business coaching, which is an incorrect and potentially dangerous comparison to make. For example, one study found that leadership skills learned through public pedagogy had the most effective and consistent results.

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Talent Anarchy 1

AUGUST 26, 2023

People and businesses will always need to move goods and passengers, making this industry resistant to economic downturns. Even during challenging times, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, essential transportation services remained operational, highlighting the industry’s resilience.

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Experience to Lead

JANUARY 29, 2024

Businesses regularly establish routines in the way they operate, but when problems arise and they’re thrown a curve ball, those routines and competencies may no longer work for the situation managers find themselves in. In turn, this creates space for a resilient workplace culture to flourish and generate sustainable ways of operating.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2019

Fact, you cannot operate a successful business alone! For example, when great leaders are judging, they are doing it in a way which encourages development – this is what you do with eager new talent. You need a crew of people to confront and conquer your major obstacles and challenges. It’s absolutely a bad idea not to critique!

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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 29, 2012

The one thing rule applies because work systems operate in weird and emergent ways, changing one thing will have impacts up and down the work that are not expected. You may get some resistance and “ that will never work here ”; If you getting those responses stick to your solution development , success happens in iterative steps.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 21, 2016

Though Newton's third law of physics may dictate that every action has an equal and opposite reaction, when it comes to the alteration of employee behaviors in the workplace, the reactions and resistance can often be disproportionately negative. Having studied that topic, we use that term of "simple sabotage behaviors" advisedly here.

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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 28, 2013

These complaints often construct the reality of how the team operates and how the people within the team treat and act towards each other. 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.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 6, 2013

To address one choice over the other would disrupt the way in which people have become used to operating. Sullivan provides numerous examples of conversations that have gone on inside companies in search of their purpose. But in the long run, this silence will end up hurting the organization. What if you''re not the CEO?

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QAspire

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Big companies have all the required resources, but also a lot of red-tape and resistance to change. Innovation can take many forms from operational innovation to business models and creating platforms. Great cites example of Google to outline the 70/20/10 rule which I so agree with. He says, The premise of the rule is simple.

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Change Starts Here

DECEMBER 8, 2016

For example, manufacturing operations groups often insist on long production runs to reduce downtime and scrap, while supply chain groups strive to reduce inventory and increase agility by scheduling short production runs. Uncover Resistance. Listen for what they’re protecting themselves from to uncover resistance.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JANUARY 22, 2014

If they’re smart, a leader who fails to make the right connections might see that they’re heading for disaster when they become overwhelmed and unable to accomplish what they need to or when there is persistent resistance to change. Remember to stay balanced.

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Experience to Lead

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The bottom line is, organizational change can only happen if you have high-performing leaders willing to set an example and get the rest of the organization on the same page. Understand That Change Is Necessary People are unlikely to play their role in organizational change if they don’t understand why new ways of operating are needed.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Being a successful entrepreneur does not come easily because learning to operate a successful company takes long. There are numerous successful examples of individuals who have benefited from self-directed learning skills. Other than that, an entrepreneur has a keen eye for opportunities and a strong will to see things through.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 30, 2015

1 This feeling of incongruity can be deeply unsettling, for example, when men set off explosives at a marathon race or open fire in a movie theater; that is not how our world is supposed to operate. We seek to make sense of the situation and reconfirm meaning elsewhere in our lives when such tragedies occur.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

Zappos is one example. Trader Joe’s is another example. The culture required to drive a strategy of innovation is different from the culture required to develop efficiency or operational excellence. There are many examples of healthy culture, and unfortunately, many more examples of unhealthy ones. Walk the talk.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 15, 2015

Not long after this revelation, I was asked to work with Harry, the chief operating officer of a large consulting firm. In my younger days, I would have overlooked Harry’s resistance. Evidently the CEO had concluded that an individual who actively resists help has maxed out professionally and personally.).

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LDRLB

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

The authors use numerous real-life examples to explain how to identify the sacred cows in an organization that are no longer effective and how to put them to pasture (their words, not mine). They cover how to overcome resistance and prepare an environment for change.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

When it finally came to my attention, I realized right away that large-scale, controlled experimentation would revolutionize the way all companies operate their businesses and how managers make decisions. Why do many business leaders resist it? I had no idea how their use would fuel the rise of today’s online businesses.

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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 28, 2015

We have been conditioned to resist change, especially when it requires us to get out of our comfort zone, so it's a tough nut to crack. For example, many hospitals are now engaged in making changes to improve their performance and the quality of care they provide. And if the organization can't change, there is no long-term success.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2022

As it turns out, what passes for strategy in many businesses, government agencies, and military operations is ultimately just a mix of wishful thinking and a jumble of incoherent policies. Marvel is a nice example. One of those books is Richard Rumelt’s The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 30, 2020

I’ve written a few times about the virtues of offering staff flexible working options, and it’s interesting that it’s largely taken a pandemic to force the hand of managers who have so often resisted such approaches out of hand. Research suggests that virtual workers operate best when working in bursts.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

AUGUST 28, 2023

Assume you have a team that is operating on all cylinders. Many people fear the unknown or become openly resistant to change they did not have the opportunity to help shape. Examples of this kind of disruptive change are things like mergers, acquisitions, digital upgrades that alter your business model, etc.

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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 14, 2012

These complaints construct the reality of how the team operates and how the people within the team treat and act towards others. 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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LDRLB

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

The authors use numerous real-life examples to explain how to identify the sacred cows in an organization that are no longer effective and how to put them to pasture (their words, not mine). They cover how to overcome resistance and prepare an environment for change.

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Review Senge Books Resistance 83

Skip Prichard

APRIL 15, 2020

For example, in one study, researchers found that writing two paragraphs about their goals and aspirations caused people to be more socially outgoing in a team setting, which in turn led to them having a higher reputation among their peers. Let me give you a personal example. A great example to explain this is Benjamin Zander.

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LDRLB

OCTOBER 5, 2012

For example, Four Seasons Hotels puts candidates through five separate interviews. What I appreciated the most about this book is that Parker resisted the urge to stuff culture into a Maxwell-ian “Three Keys to Fixing Your Culture” type summary. Generating a culture is an art, not a science.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

An example (Note: all following italicized questions are posed as a mythical hairdresser seeking business) might be: Why do you wear your hair like that? They encourage resistance, partial/missed answers, and lies. These questions restrict possibility, cause resistance, create distrust, and encourage lying.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 28, 2022

For instance, according to standard investing metrics, to accrue a $1 billion valuation would require an expectation that the business would eventually secure pre-tax operating profits of around $200 million, which while certainly no walk in the park is equally not excessively ambitious.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Would you share an example from an organization doing it right? In our book, we provide numerous examples of agility. In the military realm, we use the Battle of Normandy as an ultimate example of both strategic and tactical agility. “Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.”

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