N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

As a consulting professional who works closely with top executives in the world’s largest companies, I have witnessed firsthand the challenges they face in adapting their leadership styles to the ever-changing business landscape. Another significant challenge for executives is managing organizational complexity.

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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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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2021

As executive search consultants, we focus on understanding and optimizing businesses’ intended transformations and how they are shaping strategic responses to industry-level changes. To better understand the challenges of changing the mindset of employees at an organization, we should identify the factors causing this resistance to change.

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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 9, 2013

Resistance to Change and Learning Anxiety. The company hired me for change and team consulting. The district managers operated under a control and command system and asking them to switch to coaching & feedback was met with great resistance. Photo Credit. 3 Ideas for working with team change. Involve the team.

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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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Nathan Magnuson

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Once we gain a degree of knowledge in a certain area, it’s difficult to resist making assumptions that we now know best what to do. At this point, our expertise begins to plateau because we’re operating from memory vs. curiosity. Nathan Magnuson is a leadership consultant, coach, trainer and thought leader.

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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. You may get a good liftoff, but then unexpected resistance drags you down. Do employees know what behaviors and actions are required of them?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2019

A former Chick-fil-A marketing consultant said, “They don’t wavier. They have resisted the urge to gussie it up, to change it, to get rid of it, or to do the wrong thing with it.”. It is, as Robinson describes—engaging, endearing, and enduring. Stewardship comes into play here too. They don’t shift. Taking Personal Responsibility.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

When I was CEO of Hewitt Associates, an HR consulting firm (now Aon Hewitt), we were a partnership. Make a list of each employee’s top skills and use this information when assigning work, so that most of the time, employees are operating from their strengths. This tendency is problematic if you are a manager.

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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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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

This is the definition of presence, and it is only when we operate in the present that real creativity, growth and innovation occur. Operating in excess of that threshold will cause increased stress, lack of attention to detail and errant decisioning. Is your rubber-band stretched so tight that it’s about to snap?

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HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Individuals working a 4-day week report reduced stress levels and an improved resistance to work stress. Recruitment consultancy company MRL also conducted a study with its own team and 87 percent reported their mental health was better balanced. percent of employees felt more energized through this system with 61.5

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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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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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LDRLB

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Bob Lieberman is a business leadership consultant based in the Pacific Northwest. The fact is that most companies spend a surprising amount of effort actually resisting innovation in so-called non-creative functions like operations, finance, customer service, and sales. This is guest post from Bob Lieberman.

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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. The act of operating in the truest best interest of others is the issue. Thanks for the astute observations Mark. Mike Henry Sr.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Biologically ironic to our human nature, most people adamantly resist change. Joshua Lee Henry is the Director of Coaching on Purpose, a biblically-based leadership development consultancy that operates as a “BAM” –business as mission, organization. Yet it remains one of the only constants in life.

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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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LDRLB

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Bob Lieberman is a business leadership consultant based in the Pacific Northwest. The fact is that most companies spend a surprising amount of effort actually resisting innovation in so-called non-creative functions like operations, finance, customer service, and sales. This is guest post from Bob Lieberman.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2019

Regardless they are resistive, contrary and fighting the system at every turn in the road. Quality Consultants serves small firms as well as Fortune 500 firms in North, South, Central America, and China. They comprise around 52% of the work population. Then there are the “actively disengaged”. They comprise 18% of the workforce.

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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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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 15, 2015

Not long after this revelation, I was asked to work with Harry, the chief operating officer of a large consulting firm. In my younger days, I would have overlooked Harry’s resistance. Evidently the CEO had concluded that an individual who actively resists help has maxed out professionally and personally.).

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Change Starts Here

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

They support change projects throughout the organization, by acting as internal consultants or by providing the resources departments need to implement change themselves. Others create new departments outside the existing structure, with names like Center of Expertise, Operational Excellence, or Change Management Office.

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Talent Anarchy 1

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

To trust means we believe the other person will behave and/or operate in good faith. We must assume a protective stance for all within our network and resist the temptation to gossip, defame, or throw people under the bus. To trust means we believe the other person has done the best he/she could. Communication.

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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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N2Growth Blog

JULY 11, 2010

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

This research also revealed that self-awareness could lead to better performance by enabling leaders to understand exactly how they operate and how they can achieve optimal results through behavioral changes. Research tells us that those who are more self-aware have a better understanding of others, allowing them to lead more effectively.

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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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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 5, 2018

Economic advantages are created when you surround yourself with the advice, counsel and co-operation of a group of reliable people who are willing to lend wholehearted support, collaborate and promote your cause. Mary Ila Ward of Horizon Point Consulting submitted What are Company Values and How do you Create Them?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

In our work of leading change in higher education and teaching students and executives about the change management process, we’ve gained a deep understanding of why resistance happens and what leaders can do to overcome it. Identifying the Sources of Resistance. We all operate at different speeds. Focus on listening.

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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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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Resist the temptation to give way to emotional decisioning and you’ll see your career and company soar to new heights of success. Great CEOs lead by example…they set the tone for others in the organization by demonstrating proactive, rational, logical and balanced thinking as opposed reactionary emotional thinking.

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In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

However, it woke up Coke who were forced to look beyond their advertising and instead at their operational strategy. Formerlife: CEO of Jacobs Suchard (Nabob, Kraft), Strategy/Branding Consultant. November 21, 2011 at 5:08 am. John, the Pepsi taste-test campaign grew share of mind when it came out. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

If you resist, they will go on to the next warm body. 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.

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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

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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