Great Results Team Building

JUNE 12, 2014

This list of 28 great quotes to inspire and help manage change may be useful to remind yourself and your coworkers of the needs and benefits that motivate successful people to not only welcome it, but to become advocates and champions for progress. People don’t resist change. They resist being changed!”. Peter Senge.

Management 203

Management Senge Kotter Welch 203

Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

If we believe people who take all their vacation time are less dedicated than we are, our unconscious bias may manifest itself as a deep-seated resistance to their ideas: They aren’t committed, so how can their input have value? Biases can be managed and minimized but total elimination is highly unlikely given the brain thing that’s going on.

Senge 150

Senge Groupthink How To Resistance 150

LDRLB

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

However, as an organizational scholar, I am fascinated by how some organizations managed to successfully lead their people through change and others fail miserably. They cover how to overcome resistance and prepare an environment for change. When reading the book, my mind kept going back to Senge’s concept of mental models.

Review 83

Review Senge Books Resistance 83

LDRLB

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

However, as an organizational scholar, I am fascinated by how some organizations managed to successfully lead their people through change and others fail miserably. They cover how to overcome resistance and prepare an environment for change. When reading the book, my mind kept going back to Senge’s concept of mental models.

Review 96

Review Senge Books Resistance 96

Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Peter Senge, founder of the Society of Organizational Learning and senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, once observed, “Most managers do not reflect carefully on their actions.” Most managers are too busy “running” to reflect. Even Lincoln had to resist the “instantaneous nature of the telegraph.”

Forrester 266

Forrester Organization Power Senge 266

Deming Institute

APRIL 28, 2016

Appreciation for a system is one of the four components of Deming’s management system. This is often how balancing loops are portrayed but they can also be stubborn resistance to improvement. To Get Different Results the Management System Must Change. That is a powerful diagram. They had a pattern I have seen often since.

System 28

System Deming Crisis Senge 28

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Middle managers are worrying if they are still needed. Leadership position no longer matters as much as leadership itself (a distinction Peter Senge wrote about in The Fifth Discipline ). The next question, the underlying one, is always the same: how is this going to affect the amount of power I have?

Power 14

Power Span of Control Senge Media 14