Leading Blog

APRIL 7, 2023

Strong, negative feelings make some people resistant to seeing offenders in anything but a negative light. For example, an aggrieved employee may respect a particular skill the accused has and understand that without it, their own work will be much harder, or impossible, to accomplish. Be warned: This can be a challenging process.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 26, 2020

All of us are bombarded with increasing waves of data and sensory inputs, and whether we realize it or not, we have become increasingly resistant. It’s not so much a case of having to pay attention to the news of the world as it is a case of knowing when to change our filters so that the important stuff comes in.”.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Even the best ideas will go nowhere if you don’t anticipate the potential resistance of others. Anticipating resistance can’t be an afterthought. Leaders need to anticipate resistance early in the change or innovation process.”. Schein : “The warning signs are never ‘cultural.’

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 27, 2023

Resist the Allure of a Quick Fix. In your efforts to close The Gap, the following five barriers are the most common: Navigate Loss. Change requires loss, and we don’t like that. Reorder Values. When progress stalls, there could be a values clash that you are not aware of. Avoid band-aides. Manage Risk.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 20, 2018

To engage in focused delivery, leaders must have the political competence to overcome the headwinds of resistance that sabotage forward movement and have the managerial competence to overcome challenges that could lead to dropping the ball. And then there’s the resistance. Ideas themselves are rarely threats.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Paradoxical Coaching - When Clients Resist by Anne Perschel @bizshrink. E-commerce innovation in 2021 will look like what was projected for 2025 by @ValaAfshar | ZDNet. The Observer Effect – Interview with @Tobi Lütke I find myself more interested in the inputs of an idea than the actual decision.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 6, 2012

The general answer is our resistance to change. In The Pivot Point , authors Victoria and James Grady ask, “What if this is not a ‘ resistance ’ problem for which the organization must engineer a solution, but a deeper ‘people’ problem that the organization must first learn to understand and respect?” But what if it’s something else?

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Leading Blog

MARCH 10, 2023

They can be useful as to where you’ll find resistance. “Before we can burn the boats, we have to be confident in who we are, unafraid of being felled by the forces gunning for our demise.” You’ll always have detractors. They are often negative because they lack knowledge about what you are doing.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 14, 2020

Although we would like to believe that we are the one who would be able to resist an authority figure’s instructions to deliver electrical shocks to innocent people—remind yourself that most people, just like us, with an equal commitment to decency, succumbed in this situation.

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Leading Blog

MAY 2, 2014

Resistance is natural. “If If there is no resistance there is no change….Pushing Pushing back against resistance creates barriers. Using questions to pull the resistance out provides opportunity to create context.”. The larger the disruption, the more challenging the task.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

Additionally, organizational complexity can conceal active resistance, and many organizations lack the expertise to govern such massive changes efficiently. The loss of translation from leadership to implementation teams and across groups that have to collaborate can lead to costly implications.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 9, 2024

You can empower the people in your life if you resist the temptation to try to solve their problems and instead coach them through their challenges. Intentional listening and curiosity also means freeing yourself from solving other people’s problems. Instead of solving, coach.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

Organizations that continue to ignore/resist this shift and try to force old processes are setting themselves up for failure. Our nation’s workforce is undergoing a major transformation in attitude and priorities. What motivated someone 5 years ago - even two or three years ago - is not the same thing that motivates that same person today.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Handling defensiveness and/or resistance to feedback. Ego resists things like “Mental flexibility, self-reflection, taking full accountability, forgiveness, letting go and moving on.” Cy Wakeman writes in No Ego , that we spend way too much time in the workplace dealing with drama caused by our egos. Check Your Own Ego.

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Leading Blog

MAY 24, 2021

The more you invest in a set of beliefs—the greater the sacrifice you make in service of that conviction—the more resistant you will be to evidence that suggests that you are mistaken. What happens to true believers when their convictions are confronted by reality? You don’t give up.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2018

For Challenging Conversations, Respect Melts Resistance by @ArtPetty. The latest thinking on the benefits of articulating a coherent, compelling #innovation narrative via @mitsmr. Creativity Revisited via @LBS. It’s Never Too Late to Learn These 12 Powerful Leadership Habits by @LollyDaskal.

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Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2016

Hooked : Why cute sells.and other marketing magic that we just can't resist by Patrick Fagan. Preston Tucker and His Battle to Build the Car of Tomorrow by Steve Lehto. The Effective Manager by Mark Horstman. High-Hanging Fruit : Build Something Great by Going Where No One Else Will by Mark Rampolla.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

There are two types of people— responsive and resistant. You hire responsive ones and fire the resistant. Resistant people, on the other hand, are exhausting. Resistance is basically pride. Resistance will fight rather than resolve, blame rather than admit, and run away rather than run toward reconciliation.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

They did so because as Brookhiser put it, “he had earned their admiration over the long haul by keeping his eye on the task at hand, resisting the distraction of losing his temper” and “because he had spared them much of his anger, and leavened it, when he had not, with impartiality and consideration.” * * *.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

While we will move swiftly and aggressively against those who resist, we will treat all others with decency, demonstrating chivalry and soldierly compassion for people who have endured a lifetime under Saddam's oppression. Our fight is not with the Iraqi people, nor is it with members of the Iraqi army who choose to surrender.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Real leaders resist the temptation and rise above it. If we believe people should be respectful of each other, then we must be those people. Returning in kind is tempting and sometimes funny, but it does nothing but add to the discord we see around us. To do anything else only adds to the destructive division we see today.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 13, 2012

Claudio Feser writes in Serial Innovators, “Some firms become blinded by success and begin to resist external views and challenges. Occasionally, some organizations resist these all too human tendencies and thrive. Some are locked into mental models and become driven by habits. Some become bureaucratic. They confront rigidity.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Disregard or dismiss: Even if the feedback seems unfamiliar or contradictory to your self-perception, resist the urge to disregard it outright. Defensive reactions can hinder understanding and close the door to growth. Instead, take a moment to absorb the feedback before responding.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 23, 2020

The resistance to the winning now, winning later mindset often comes from the leadership and not the frontline staff because they live the consequences of short-term think every day. When providing guidance, tr to do more than just saying, “Do better.”

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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.”. s resist learning new experiences. A Version 1.0 can think they are traditionalists when really they are closed-minded. Version 1.0’s

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Leading Blog

APRIL 30, 2017

One Temptation Most Successful Executives Resist by Karin Hurt @LetsGrowLeaders. A Surgeon's Legacy Teaches Us The Power Of Mentorship from @JohnBaldoni. Beware of these three leadership traps from @wallybock. How to Create Psychological Safety on Your Team via @leadchangegroup. Leadership As a Performing Art by @edbatista.

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Leading Blog

MAY 31, 2014

10 Reasons I Have Come To Admire Christian Senior Adults Who Resist Change by @BrianKDodd. Today''s Challenge: Developing Leaders by @LeadersServe (Mark Miller). Leading Change – It’s Not About You by @paul_larue. 9 Qualities of Remarkably Confident People via @Inc. Are Bosses Becoming Extinct? from @inseadknowledge. Looking for a leader?

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Leading Blog

MAY 24, 2011

At the core of drama you will find one of three common elements (if not all three): a lack of clarity, a relationship issue, and/or resistance. What am I resisting? So, says Chism, when you experience drama you need to ask yourself three questions: 1. Where am I unclear? What is my relationship issue?

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Leading Blog

APRIL 1, 2020

Full-spectrum thinking is the ability to seek patterns and clarity outside, across, beyond, or maybe even without any boxes or categories while resisting false certainty and simplistic binary choices. Sticking with this old way of thinking and seeing isn't just foolish, it's dangerous.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Samuel Bacharach writes in The Agenda Mover , that leadership is “about your capacity to take your ideas and work them through the maze of resistance, overcome challenges, and put those ideas in place. Traditionalists can anticipate that a Revolutionary will resist their approach and agenda.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 13, 2018

introduced it he thought he might get resistance from Cal Sr. The concept of “unscrewing” has to do with change, and change is something most of us resist. A boss only gets results; a leader gets development.… A true leader vests the authority in the organization.”. The company was built with no strategic plan. When Cal Jr. But Cal Sr.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

RosabethKanter: Ten Reasons People Resist Change. Moderation Doesn't Mean Mediocrity by @KateNasser. Leadership Isn’t About Checking Boxes by @mikemyatt. 5 questions to turn a bad day into a great day via @kenblanchard. Five Backcountry Leadership Lessons for the Boardroom via @ngadventure. RonEdmondson: 8 Most Dangerous Leadership Traits.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 30, 2020

Thomas also offers some approaches when dealing with people who resist the process and those who are in denial. You may have a number of reframed-problems at the end of this process. In that case, narrow them down by looking for surprising, simple, r significant-if-true framings. What’s Your Problem?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Don’t waste your time and energy trying to light a fire under flame-resistant people. Any culture with an over-emphasis on “ knowing your position ” creates problems that get in the way of relationships, causes resentment and, as a direct result of this, can interfere with progress and innovation.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 26, 2019

Coaches need to resist the urge to rescue their client. “Our reality is that things happen to us and we have a feeling or we decide we have a feeling, but others can never ‘make us feel.’”. Boundaries and Systems.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 28, 2013

If we have not built the strength of character to resist those temptations, we can easily become the person we don’t recognize. But over time, something can happen if we are not careful. Competitive pressures weigh on us. The chance for extrinsic rewards like money and power loom larger. Success also seduces us.

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Leading Blog

JULY 6, 2012

Instead of fighting and resisting a physical reaction, “learn to observe it and acknowledge it as purely a physical effect with no link to your ability to perform effectively.”. * * * Like us on Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * *.

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