Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

It all operates effortlessly until we attempt to drive a behavior that runs counter to our beliefs – and then we get resistance as our system attempts to maintain balance. New Year’s resolutions seek behavior change with no accompanying belief change, potentially causing their own resistance. To learn more about What?

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QAspire

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Beating distractions and resistance by engaging in activities that are immersive for me and add value – to the self as well as the outer world. External conditions may not always be in our control but how we respond to them, learn from those experiences and adapt to create value is in our control.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 9, 2014

Part of the attraction for me is the weekly escape to an unfamiliar world – a time, a place and a culture that seem light-years away from the daily challenges I face consulting with businesses on leadership issues. Don’t try to resist technology in the workplace. Today, the world is changing exponentially faster than it was back then.

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Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 27, 2017

Has resistance been dealt with openly? So this step ensures that the business operating team is ready to take ownership of the change and continue implementing the plan. Assess what works and what doesn’t through benchmark visits, customer research, scanning the environment and other areas of business, and personnel rotations.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 31, 2021

May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.” – Rainer Maria Rilke Beating distractions and resistance by engaging in activities that are immersive for me and add value – to the self as well as the outer world.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2019

The engagement gap is the target rich environment for improvement that firms need to exploit if they wish to attain long-term, strong performance. Regardless they are resistive, contrary and fighting the system at every turn in the road. With 70% either not-engaged or actively disengaged, you clearly have a target rich environment.

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Nathan Magnuson

JANUARY 4, 2016

“Think Grey” Steven Sample shared this concept in his landmark book The Contrarian’s Guide to Leadership as an encouragement to resist making a critical thinking judgment sooner than necessary. I’ll never forgotten what FBI Executive Assistant Director Janet Kamerman told our consulting team several years ago.

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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 28, 2013

These complaints often construct the reality of how the team operates and how the people within the team treat and act towards each other. These fictions can be seen either as cooperation or resistance ; they are one or the other. Pattern of Resistance. Reinforcing resistance patterns only digs you deeper into frustration.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

Posted on January 21st, 2011 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? link] ATIG Dear Mike, Reasonably at the crucial moment, We can’t resist and reject that process. Which hat, or hats do you wear?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

They resist at all costs letting that dreaded public display of compassion slip out. People’s resistance to display compassion, other than to family and friends, is what makes it so complex. Gwyn Teatro Mike , so many view kindness, empathy, compassion and love as elements foreign to business environments and strong leadership.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Indeed, a recent survey of 1 000 small business owners by the UK consultancy firm Sandler Training found that one in five entrepreneurs came up with their startup idea while they were on vacation. In those moments, it’s easy for us to resist the forces of change, insisting on sticking to what we know.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

In this article I explore three barriers to entrepreneurial action: resistance from within the firm, resistance from within the supply chain, and resistance from the customer. Resistance from Within. The most significant hurdle by far is resistance to change from within. Resistance from the Supplier.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Before you know it the herd mentality of the legions of politically correct consultants and advisers use said practice area as a platform to be evangelized, and the necessity of common sense and the reality of what actually works often times gets thrown out the window as a trade-off for promotional gain.

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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 14, 2012

These complaints construct the reality of how the team operates and how the people within the team treat and act towards others. These fictions can be seen as cooperation or resistance , one cannot exist in the same breathe as the other. What patterns can you compare between the resistant and cooperative actions you see?

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

In this environment of constant change, I often hear that we should be agile. It is a new, more advanced way of studying environments, making decisions, building cultures, and operating on a day-to-day basis. When facing a favorable environment, agile organizations grab the initiative and keep competitors off-balance.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 24, 2015

We all operate out of unique, internal systems comprised of mental models (rules, beliefs, history etc.) For real change (like learning something new) to occur, our system must buy-in to the new or it will be automatically resisted. To avoid resistance and support adoption, training must enable. It’s a systems/change problem.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

If you resist, they will go on to the next warm body. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. I stated that I wasn’t interested in his projects and needed to end the call. People who hound and use you in business are out for whatever they can get, from whomever they can get it. All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 23, 2016

I developed a model of How to Change congruently that adopts the new without resistance; I’ve been teaching this in sales, coaching, leadership, and change management. All of us have unique Identities; our Beliefs are the operating manuals; our Behaviors exhibit our Beliefs in action. Every day, in every way, we ACT who we ARE.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

They encourage resistance, partial/missed answers, and lies. These questions restrict possibility, cause resistance, create distrust, and encourage lying. These narrow the range of possible responses, often creating some form of resistance or defensive lies; they certainly cause defensiveness and distrust. What Is Change?

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CO2

AUGUST 8, 2010

. — David Whyte from Where Many Rivers Meet ©2007 Many Rivers Press We can have faith that tomorrow will come or we can resist that temptation. Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

His book, Lessons from the Navy: How to Earn Trust, Lead Teams, and Achieve Organizational Excellence is loaded with advice to help all leaders aspiring to operate at the highest levels. A few months prior, I had been selected to be executive officer, or XO (Chief Operating Officer), of U.S. Naval Hospital Rota, Spain.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

In meat plants, tens of thousands of operators are “whizzing” meat products everyday in over sixty countries around the world. By the end of 2010, we have a prototype adaptation of our Whizard trimmer for tissue processing operating with the original customer, but we know that the tool is unsatisfactory in many ways.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

It is very important for leaders wanting to create Self-Starters to articulate a clear vision, values and set of goals for their teams, as this type operates by seeking forgiveness rather than permission. Brown-Nosers constantly check in with their leaders and operate by seeking permission, rather than forgiveness.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2017

Since the Expedition One launch to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2001 — the first long-duration stay on the orbital construction site — NASA’s Human Health and Performance team has been developing expertise in the planning and provision of medical support to crews staying in our world’s most remote environment.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

JUNE 21, 2021

Others will resist getting in the car at all. It’s often the stress that people resist, not the change itself. Being Change-friendly operates from a platform of respect and caring, not intimidation and contention. It’s especially so in an environment of change and transition. That’s exactly what change can feel like.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

Too many calls for outside support from consultants. This vulnerability frequently compels traditionalists to resist analytics. Finally, the CEO must identify the executives most vested in the status quo and proactively manage their resistance — up to and including weeding out the obstinate ones.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

One of my clients recently “downshifted” into a “better lifestyle” (his words) plural career — only to find the consulting roles he was offered required twice the travel as his corporate job, and to parts of the world he had no interest in going. Consulting projects have long sales arcs.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Why do cultures resist change? Because to compete successfully, we must able to instantly respond to the environment; we cannot take the time to think every time before acting. Because if we change immediately every time we encounter a new environment, we will constantly spend energy on changing — energy that we need to survive.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

They saw it as an opportunity to completely transform the operation to improve care and the patient experience and to lower costs. To that end, they decided to have a team study how care is delivered, identify the barriers to smooth operations, and fix the barriers. It was fully integrated into emergency room operations at St.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

MAY 30, 2010

This video speaks to the culture that is prevalent in more workplaces than any of us would like to admit, workplaces that operate on the basis of positional power with an undercurrent of fear. Ignoring it, or paying lip service to it, creates unwanted resistance that gets in the way of healthy productivity and long-term sustainability.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

In my research and consultancy with companies, I observe that, oftentimes, no individual or group is functionally responsible for overseeing the arrangement of their company from end to end. The best performing companies are often the best aligned.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Clinical and administrative staff often view their work as a vocation as much as a profession, and they are historically suspicious of senior administrators and resistant to strategic agendas. I talked with clinical, administrative, and operational staff where they worked and asked them to tell me more.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2017

” Scott Edinger, the founder of Edinger Consulting Group and the author of The Hidden Leader , says that the resistance to sales stems from an “antiquated idea that selling is pushing people to buy something they don’t want, don’t need, or can’t afford.” ” But that notion is outdated.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

The typical reaction is resistance. Ideas should progress through stages of a lab (develop and test in a simulated environment), to pilot (a small test in the real world to prove and evolve the concept), to rollout ("global" implementation). Managers are told "be hard on the process, but soft on the operators.".

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Here’s the bottom line: How can you possibly justify not communicating with your key constituents, stakeholders, and influencers in an environment of their choosing, where they are actively having conversations in real time? I would also suggest resisting the temptation to have all your communications be self-serving.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Spinning up new innovation initiatives is exciting, but changing the environment those new ideas are born into is really difficult. Decide if it ’s a consultancy or a skunkworks. Sometimes that requires creating a separate operating structure. But the most common cause of death they reported?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2018

But after ten years of studying and consulting with women in tech companies, and from interviews and focus groups, I can confidently conclude that these six strategies help women in STEM achieve success, regardless of how supportive — or hostile — their company cultures may be. Ramos-Kwok resisted that advice.

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