Six Disciplines

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Many leaders address the change challenge in a very clinical fashion, going first for the process, the policy or the procedure. We generally like changes that affect us positively, but tend to resist changes that affect us in a negative way. In other words, “We don’t resist change, we resist being changed.”

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 18, 2013

Other types of situations where influence may be needed include: • Changes to project plans • Support of proposals by upper management • Agree to new assignments and tasks • Provide necessary information in a timely fashion • Stop ineffective or negative behaviors The Power Use Model outlined by Anita Hall, Extension Educator ?and

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Miles Anthony Smith

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Steampunk is a really clever hybrid of old-fashioned designs and sci-fi inspired futuristic technology. This has made it stand out from the crowd and become a very popular and fashionable design. ​ ​Click "READ MORE" to check out the Top 27 Steampunk Watches that'll surely elevate your fashion statement!

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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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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 30, 2015

Employees simply must be able to make sense of and assign personal significance and meaning to the changes taking place, or their sense of certainty is compromised and they will resist the changes in the short term, and spiral downward in the longer term. And the fundamental problem behind change doesn’t make things any easier.

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Leading with Trust

MARCH 10, 2020

The reliance upon email and IM in the virtual world easily leads to misinterpreting a person’s intent, usually in a negative fashion, so be proactive about using the phone and webcams to make communications more personal. We also lose the visual cues provided by body language that place a person’s communications in context.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

For all the talk of disruptive innovation, it more often occurs in an iterative fashion, with innovators standing on the shoulders of those who went before them. Smarter networking. “What we show is the opposite, that in fact if you get more networked and well-connected, you amplify this echo chamber.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 12, 2015

Naturally, many of these organization-wide changes are met with resistance in some form or another. Discovering what is not working and why allows you to address challenges in a more timely fashion. Employees may become increasingly irritable or defensive when their performance doesn’t meet the expected standards.

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Mills Scofield

JUNE 5, 2013

Mrked is a tech accessories company that not only offers quality, fashionable products, but also a chance for you to “Leave a Mrk” on the world. Walking into the Apple store, you may have noticed the vast selection of iPhone snap cases and high-end fashionable cases that barely offered your $500 investment any protection.

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 20, 2012

Encourage your employees to develop their skills One of the reasons why Canada geese fly in V-formation is in order to help reduce air drag, where the birds at the front essentially reduce the air resistance so that the birds at the back of the flock have an easier time flying.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 9, 2012

This is why employees often resist change as those in charge spend little time explaining the measures or trying to understand the concerns of those they lead, opting instead to use their authority to simply push their decisions from the top down.

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 25, 2014

That’s why it’s important for us to take note of sawubona – so that we make intentional our efforts to nurture relationships with those we lead , so we can understand what matters to them, and how they can contribute in a meaningful fashion to our shared purpose.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

I’ve addressed this topic before, but perhaps not in this fashion…True leadership is dedication to something beyond self. They resist at all costs letting that dreaded public display of compassion slip out. People’s resistance to display compassion, other than to family and friends, is what makes it so complex.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Popular business axioms and management theories are thrown around in such cavalier fashion these days that they can actually result in flawed decisioning. Let’s look at this from another angle…Why would you want to do business in the same fashion as your competitors?

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Ron Edmondson

MARCH 27, 2013

I will do it in a satirical fashion, but it should help spot the “odd man out” on your team. Here are 8 ways to be the “odd man out” on a team: Be resistant to every change – Whenever a new idea is presented, always be the first to say it won’t work.

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Chris Brady

MARCH 2, 2010

It was in this period that the Lord saw fit to fashion them for the promised land.    * Adversity accomplishes the following:     1. provides an opportunity for learning     2. toughens and seasons one with increased wisdom and experience     3.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 28, 2016

This is often how balancing loops are portrayed but they can also be stubborn resistance to improvement. If there are any crazy people that resist that (like me, for instance) get upset with them for not going along with the way things have always been done. Organizations in fire-fighting mode can often fall into this trap.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

“Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.” Radical flattening of organizations is a fashionable recipe for dealing with accelerating change and uncertainty. ” -Sun Tzu. What differences do you note between the most successful organizations versus the mediocre?

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Rajesh Setty

MAY 19, 2012

is the fashion. I couldn’t resist smiling myself. I mean they read one or two chapters and move on to the next book. Soon, they have a pile of unread books on their night stand but they will continue to buy books. I started looking for ways to spread ideas in a world where A.D.D. Does it make you feel theatric and like a magician?

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Coaching Ourselves

AUGUST 9, 2019

Nurses and healthcare officials react that horizon on the cause that by fashioning inoculation rates in children uncompleted, we reveal all children to catching the vaccine-preventable diseases. If this is a danger around parents are unforced to yield, but others cheek unwillingly, thither is plainly a propitious chopine for argue.

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Steve Farber

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Even you won’t be able to resist her charms.”. Note: I’m excited to share my second book, The Radical Edge , in serial fashion here on SteveFarber.com ! Agnes Golden is one of a kind, and that’s a shame for the rest of us. We could use a lot more just like her, that’s for sure.”. Who is she?” You’ll see, Buck. Cam looked at me.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

When it comes to employees making change, they don't resist change itself. They resist the pain of change and fear of the unknown that comes with it. This leads many employees to think more defensively, to hold back, and resist pursuing success and playing to win.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Between recent high-profile hires from the fashion and watch industries to the rumored 18-karat gold Apple Watch, some observers are fretting about the company’s trend toward catering to the highly profitable 1%, possibly at the expense of the rest of us. Will Geniuses be replaced with trend-setting fashion consultants?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Here are three ways to keep sanity in fashion. It's fashionable to decry groupthink and it's supposed to be the cause of most bad ideas, but in fact groupthink is necessary to get a team to work together enthusiastically for a common goal. Few groups can resist that invitation. Few groups can resist charisma.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

There is a big difference between “knowing that you can” and “deciding that you want to” and at Bettcher we use a toll gate product development process fashioned after Robert Cooper’s StageGate process. So into the “Scoping” stage we go and the learning begins.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2017

Trialability points to the fact that people who were able to visualize the concrete benefits of a new technology via a trial run reduced their perceived risk and therefore their resistance to the technology. An intuitive interface can reduce initial resistance and make the technology more accessible, particularly for less tech-savvy people.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

For example, the Spanish apparel retailer Inditex, known for its clothing brand Zara, has turned the fashion industry on its head by perfecting its capabilities in fast, fashion-forward design and rapid-response manufacturing. But the companies we studied resist disruptive reorganizations and instead put their culture to work.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2014

If an idea or possibility strikes you as less than compelling, resist the urge to declare it “not true.” In addition, taking this approach will likely have the effect of convincing other members of the team to explore your option in similar fashion – and they will build on yours just as you have built on theirs.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

Reliability and efficiency require that work be performed in a process mode, where tasks are accomplished repetitively in a prescribed fashion, resulting in minimal variation and cost. But most entrepreneurs instinctively resist switching from the project to the process mode.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

The quote comes from author, tech thinker, and now public-TV personality Steven Johnson: “The history of the Internet suggests that there have been cool Web sites that go in and out of fashion and then there have been open standards that become plumbing,” he told David Carr of The New York Times in January 2010. But there are alternatives.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2012

I need to make sure I don't miss an important message or fail to respond in a timely fashion. The hardest part is resisting the temptation to check during your off-email hours. I wonder what's waiting for me in my inbox? It's scintillating. It also feels legitimate, even responsible. I'm working. But it's become a serious problem.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2016

Even when they’re ignoring email, it often gnaws at their consciousness; leaders like Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh have spoken about their guilt and anxiety from failing to clear out their inbox and respond to messages in a timely fashion. “It involves the same kind of mental energy, the same source of mental energy.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Studies indicate that when we’re low on energy, we tend to misread those around us , typically in a more negative fashion. What’s more, when we’re fatigued we find it harder to resist lashing out at perceived slights. Happy faces appear more neutral. Neutral face start to look like frowns.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

In recent years, though, latecomers to the concept of microcredit, from Wall Street and other financial hotspots, have expanded (and deformed) Yunus's ideas beyond recognition, to the point where it has now become fashionable to denounce microlending as an abuse of the poor, and to rally borrowers to default on their loans.

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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. Can you resist the temptation to standardize, and use the data to uncover what makes your business unique?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Underneath their pursuits of independence and portability lies a shared aspiration to fashion a masterful self. These kinds of communities, however, by their very nature, resist such attempts at control because they let us feel attached without asking us to sacrifice our freedom. Master, ultimately, of one’s working life.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

The good news for the world economy is that, with economic development occurring in a more dispersed fashion, experiments are underway in more diverse institutional settings than ever before. Even some companies that receive bad press on occasion are worth learning from.

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