CEO Insider
MAY 5, 2023
I have encountered countless CEOs who tell me that employees resist change. While I believe that can be true, Peter Senge shared a quote from an organizational culture strategist in his book, The Fifth Discipline, noting, “People don’t resist change. They resist being changed.”
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? Scientist Peter Senge wrote about how success messes with our ability to reason. Resist that impulse.
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Great Results Team Building
JUNE 12, 2014
People don’t resist change. They resist being changed!”. Peter Senge. “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”. - Leo Tolstoy. Change before you have to”. Jack Welch. If you want to make enemies, try to change something”. Woodrow Wilson. The key to change …… is to let go of fear “.
LDRLB
NOVEMBER 17, 2011
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. Senge also recommended shifting mental models, however he doesn’t go into enough depth about just HOW to do that.
LDRLB
NOVEMBER 17, 2011
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. Senge also recommended shifting mental models, however he doesn’t go into enough depth about just HOW to do that.
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.” Even Lincoln had to resist the “instantaneous nature of the telegraph.” Most managers are too busy “running” to reflect.
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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