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Your Resistance to Change

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Resisting change is normal. Once you discover how significant change is in our lives is every day (and how an understanding of change can make you happier), we still resist change to some degree. Perhaps up to 90% of the American people do not have a clue about change.

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Create Resilient Teams

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POWER YOUR TRIBE delves deeply into the emotional undertow that often accompanies growth and change, so leaders can learn how to remove change resistance. The human brain is wired to seek reward and avoid pain and conflict--and change is associated with fear of an unknown future. . Christine is super-high bandwidth." -- Bill Gates .

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Leadership is About Getting Things Done

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Agenda movers have the skills to analyze the agendas of others and anticipate arguments of resistance. It's not simply about your ideas or your personality, it's about your capacity to take your ideas and work them through the maze of resistance, overcome challenges, and put those ideas in place. Source: Samuel B.

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Immune to Change

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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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Your Real Job is Change

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The person receives the label "resistant," and perhaps the leader becomes stigmatized as "uninspiring." Altering the attribution and recasting the challenge of resistance can significantly improve the likelihood of success. Change efforts fail for two reasons: 1.

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Success Through Effective Communication

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People openly resist being persuaded. The challenge is to recognize that what we are now doing can be reinvented by paying attention to our intentions. Yet, it is very hard to bring about significant change without changes in behavior. - See more at: [link].

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Making Meetings Work

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People will accept your request to begin some activity but tend to resist being asked to follow some “process” when this is all laid out to them in advance. You simply have no time to think through the structural choices and tools to plan an effective meeting. What can you do? Just Begin. Don’t emphasize the process that you are about to use.