LDRLB

OCTOBER 4, 2011

The fact is that most companies spend a surprising amount of effort actually resisting innovation in so-called non-creative functions like operations, finance, customer service, and sales. Just because innovation is not in someone’s job description, that doesn’t mean it isn’t important to their work. Use analogies.

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LDRLB

JANUARY 14, 2013

It’s usually an individual endeavor focused on fitness, friendships, or finances. The stronger our reaction – either positive or negative – the stronger our assumptions are likely being challenged or reinforced. What can we do to remain open to the power of surprise when it occurs rather than resist it?

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Strategy Leadership Innovation Uncertainty 160

Leading Blog

MARCH 9, 2015

Our Inside ROPE teams were comprised of colleagues in our company’s marketing, accounting, finance, engineering, support, purchasing, and other functional units. They may feel overburdened and resistant to shouldering new responsibilities. As a sales leader, I was responsible for assembling both “Inside” and “Outside” ROPE teams.

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LDRLB

OCTOBER 4, 2011

The fact is that most companies spend a surprising amount of effort actually resisting innovation in so-called non-creative functions like operations, finance, customer service, and sales. Just because innovation is not in someone’s job description, that doesn’t mean it isn’t important to their work. Use analogies.

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Wilde Innovation Resistance Leadership 90

Ron Edmondson

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Here are 10 ways to process the emotions of Christmas loss: List your losses – Death, divorce, injury, finances, children moved out this year – whatever they are – write them down. Resist falling into despair – That’s where you live in a false reality that all hope is gone. It’s okay to be human. It’s not.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

If your skill sets are best suited for business development, product development, branding, finance or other areas you may want to consider playing to your strengths by taking a senior position in the area of your subject matter expertise and hiring the best chief executive you can find to lead the company.

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Rich Gee Group

MARCH 19, 2014

So unlike a lot of sales positions, you TRULY make as much money (to a point) as you’d like. Car Sales - If you get into the game, you can quickly become a finance or desk manager making $120+ a year. It’s a recession-resistant career, and you can find work anywhere in the world.

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Chris Brady

JANUARY 12, 2011

It is the resistance they provide which builds the muscle - as long as the possessor of the muscles is willing to work against that resistance. As long as we are willing to strive against the "others" we will be made better by their sorry position in life. Therein lies the key. Thank you once again for your wisdom.

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Resistance Letter Blog Travel 129

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Organizations are increasingly hiring people into novel positions, but often struggle to support these new roles. Our research found that organizations vary in how tightly they structure new positions, but they fall into one of three configurations: too tight, too loose, or just right. finance, mineral processing, geology).

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Ron Edmondson

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Here are 10 ways to overcome a sense of Christmas loss: List your losses – Death, divorce, injury, finances…children moved out this year…whatever they are…write them down. Resist falling into despair – That’s where you live in a false reality that all hope is gone. I’ve personally found journaling to be helpful.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2010

While our power base is growing it is vital to have our wisdom keep up with our positions of authority. At first I sulked and resisted; that’s the drama queen in me. This beginning part is about the women who have come before us, paved the way so we could move faster and with more assurance.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Think About Finances. You’ll be able to reap the benefit of their years in the business, and the advice of someone who’s been in the same position as you in the past. Whatever’s on the horizon, you need to stop resisting change, and choose the sacrifices you’ll have to make very carefully. Photo courtesy of Pixabay.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

FACT : Leaders who lack emotional control won’t remain in a position of leadership for long. Case in point…have you ever witnessed an employee throw a fit of rage and resign their position in the heat of the moment?

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Chris Brady

MAY 27, 2010

But even though these incredible enablers of positive change abound, there is an all-too common disease that thwarts all the greatest efforts toward lasting self-improvement, and it is called: Improvement Deficiency Syndrome (IDS). persistent resistance to a positive attitude 2. persistent resistance to a positive attitude 2.

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Chris Brady

MARCH 2, 2010

", but rather, "will we be prepared?"   * 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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Blog Leadership Letter Travel 119

Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2015

In short, how does this change affect me, my family, my lifestyle, and my position? That’s a hell of a lot to think about, and that’s why change is so perplexing, so resisted, and often so fought against. Family change – both positive and negative. Think: health and finances. We have a new child. I’m getting a divorce.

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Ron Edmondson

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Here are 10 ways to overcome a sense of Christmas loss: List your losses – Death, divorce, injury, finances, children moved out this year – whatever they are – write them down. Resist falling into despair – That’s where you live in a false reality that all hope is gone. Admit the pain – write them down.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

and is an expert on risk, strategy, and finance. The capabilities of agility become ingrained in thought processes, practices and culture only if they are positioned as essential priorities and standards of excellence—and embraced as such by the whole organization. They define agility and offer leaders a roadmap for navigating change.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

I have actually come to cringe every time I hear a so called expert use the phrase in an authoritarian manner as a justification for the position they happen to be evangelizing. Being questioned by people resistant to change is not out of the ordinary, and nothing to be concerned about.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

More recently, it has gained attention as a way to finance new ventures, through what is known as an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Less noticed, though, is ICOs appear almost antithetical to the standard approach to financing a risky venture. In fact, ICOs have upended the conventional pattern of staged experimentation and fundraising.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

Because HFT firms are holding stocks for milliseconds, they’re not ever in a position where they’re voting on corporate governance issues. Now, there are some rockstar CEOs — who oftentimes happen to be founders, such as Bezos, Steve Jobs, Reid Hastings — who have the ability to resist the pressure that the markets put on them.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2017

And it explains why management-led organizations that have not embraced physician input have run into resistance. physicians in eight specialties, 100 health system finance officers, as well as 100 health system procurement officers — the people in charge of buying supplies for hospitals. But that’s how physicians see it.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

The company provides pricing data to telecoms, and Russo wondered what it would take to position her company as the quality leader in that space. All met resistance but persisted until they had a real result, such as million-dollar savings, a tenfold decrease in error rate, or a distinct advantage over competitors.

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LDRLB

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Could we be overlooking – even resisting – one of the most essential catalysts of personal and business breakthroughs? When bad things happen unexpectedly, it’s natural to resist them. Sometimes, however, it’s possible to transform the negative into a positive. Most leaders are taught to avoid uncertainty. Surprise is the enemy.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Of course, they may end up neither, but Wasserman’s research finds they seldom end up both: The “rich” options enable the company to become more valuable but sideline the founder by taking away the CEO position and control over major decisions. Four out of five founder-CEOs I studied resisted the [appointment of a new CEO], too.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

The problem is that it might appear convenient, to those in charge, to take the path of least resistance, which unfortunately exactly what seems to be happening in Greece right now. What makes this charge especially ironic is that applying the rules gives us a relatively rosy picture of the current state of Greece’s public finances.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

On August 13, 1982, when Mexican Finance Minister Silva Herzog met with officials of the U.S. position begin to change. As banks resisted, Brady forced the issue, and confronted Mexico's creditors with three options. The OECD calls for moving away from "excessive fiscal consolidation," while the Germans resist.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Most relevant to stunted growth, however, is cultural resistance — the inertial apathy of traditional financial players who are wary of novel, risky investment structures and skeptical about trading some amount of profitability for social return. Corporate social responsibility Finance Generational issues'

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

I can only imagine the resistance involved when an established, hierarchical company like the old Samsung decides to introduce practices that threaten the status quo. Our first instinct was to hire Filipinos working with multinationals either in the power or project finance arena.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

Company leaders have quoted and lauded Carr whenever they''ve needed to justify their hesitation to create strong, progressive IT positions. And they hesitate to create strong, progressive IT positions all the time. In fact, CEOs avoid IT like the plague. The senior leadership needs to become literate in technology. Accountability.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2014

As his firm grew, he undervalued and underpaid the executives who ran the supply chain and finance departments. million in financing for a new 50,000-square-foot bakery, which opened in 2008. Imagine a firm with 120 people at the beginning of the year that needs to design positions, hire, and onboard 80 new people in one year.

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Operations Company Supply Chain Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

This may sound obvious, but it was in sharp contrast to typical patterns in the pharma industry of recruiting from within, resistance to new thinking, and sclerotic bureaucratic structures. The catalysis between the “Justice League” of seasoned veterans and the new non-scientists has had a powerful, positive impact.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

Ackman''s short-selling campaign against vitamin distributor Herbalife has blown up in his face, with the company''s stock up more than 75% since he unveiled his position last December and some of his most prominent hedge fund competitors profiting from his misery. Boards Competition Finance' Or at least the market''s.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

For each promotion, the Navy sends the individual for additional training, customized for the new position, before he or she assumes the new role. Even a full professor typically remains ignorant of vital skills related to organizational behavior, operations management, finance and strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2011

I'm healthy, my family is healthy, my business is healthy, and our finances are healthy. It builds trust, creates a positive work atmosphere, and gets things done. Resist the temptation to join in, add your own juicy piece of gossip, or talk about how much work you have and how hard it is for you, too. So how should you do it?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

On the positive side, Greece has tidied up its balance sheet (at least the privately held debt), and nearly balanced its budget, excluding interest payments. True, to the surprise of many analysts, the prime minister, Antonis Samaras, abandoned his earlier populist rhetoric and tried to sort out public finances.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

When they voiced concerns about the business and organizational impact of her recommendations, she dismissed them as "old school" and resistant to change. But, anxious for a promotion to the executive level, she took a position with a key competitor.

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