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RESISTANCE TO CHANGE RECONSIDERED

Lead Change Blog

Change is a permanent feature of organizations; resistance is an expected part of the journey. Reasons for resistance vary, and may include: Loss of status from the change. Change resistance should be welcomed as an important source of data about how the plan is progressing. Job insecurity. Missed deadlines.

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Leadership and Resistance

Lead Change Blog

Using resistance to lead effectively. If you truly understand resistance, you seldom need to deal with it: You manage its cause before it even manifests itself! Understanding resistance. The leader understands the source of resistance and deals with it adequately. There is a tendency in all nature to resist change.

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Burn the Boats: Toss Plan B Overboard and Unleash Your Full Potential

Leading Blog

I F you’re looking to expand your thinking, then look no further than Burn the Boats: Toss Plan B Overboard and Unleash Your Full Potential by Matt Higgins. For those of us that have always heard, “Always have a Plan B,” burning the boats may sound reckless. They can be useful as to where you’ll find resistance.

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Understanding resistance to change

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Change Management Is resistance to change truly irrational? Author information Dr. Ross Wirth Strategic Planning & Organizational Change Consultant - - 30+ years working in strategic and operational planning, often leading organizational change initiatives. Twitter Google+ LinkedIn. Twitter Google+ LinkedIn.

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The Changing Landscape of C-Suite Executive Tenures: Insights and Implications

N2Growth Blog

CEOs who have been in their position for a long time may resist change and prefer to stick to familiar strategies instead of embracing new ones. Long-serving CEOs may delay or neglect succession planning, which can be detrimental to the organization when the time comes for a leadership transition.

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Lead Through Change: How to Guide Your Team to Success

Let's Grow Leaders

Step 2: Brainstorm Forces Split the team into smaller groups, if necessary, and brainstorm the forces driving change (positive forces) and those resisting change (negative forces). This step sets the stage for the analysis and helps ensure everyone involved understands the goal.

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12 Ways to Reduce Resistance to Change ? Part 2

Lead Change Blog

That is the likely spectrum of emotion you will encounter on announcing your change plan to the team or the organisation. No matter how brilliantly researched, planned, and executed, you will meet resistance to change. In May’s post , I set out the first six of my suggested twelve ways to reduce or reframe resistance to change.