Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

There are many things you can do to increase safety, reduce employee injuries, and protect yourself from workers compensation claims: Keep common areas clean and uncluttered, provide good lighting, and use slip-resistant flooring materials. Office-wide memos can remind staff to participate in first aid courses.

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Marshall Goldsmith

AUGUST 25, 2014

Aside from its effectiveness and efficiency, feed forward can make life a lot more enjoyable. They tend to resist negative judgment. One very common positive reaction to the previously described exercise is that participants are amazed by how much they can learn from people that they don’t know!

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Change Starts Here

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Since the dawn of civilization and especially since the industrial revolution, organizations were designed to amplify specialization, efficiency, and effectiveness through division of labor. Uncover Resistance. The inclination for people to protect their silos creates automatic resistance to something new coming from outside.

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Change Starts Here

MARCH 5, 2014

Managers express irritation when efficiency slides as employees experience a learning curve. Those who express concern or hesitation about change are labeled “resisters” and treated as adversaries. People who want to get involved in the change project are considered by their supervisors as too valuable to participate.

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Experience to Lead

OCTOBER 22, 2021

I participate in L&D activities because I want to learn. I participate in L&D activities because it is mandatory. I don’t participate as it's a waste of time and resources for me. Can employees working in a hybrid or remote environment ever be as efficient as a physical office?

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Change Starts Here

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

When people resist change, it may not be that they won’t change, but that they can’t. When they are competent, they can do it well enough to meet or exceed standards for effectiveness and efficiency. To engage in the change initiative, people need to have the time and energy to participate.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Employee engagement can largely depend on the community they have to participate in and whether they feel invited to the space or not. Discriminatory practices are very counterproductive to a healthy organization and companies that turn a blind eye to them will face challenges and resistance at every stage of their work process.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 23, 2016

When participants listened and reflected back what they heard from opponents, they discovered that that unstated issue was concern about unsustainable growth in the area. When people who have a stake in an issue get left out of the decision, they feel slighted and become resistant to change. Here’s an illustration.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 8, 2015

With greater success we can: stimulate thinking; achieve team building, innovation, and clear communication; and efficiently complete target issues. Rule: unless all – all – of the items of ultimate concern are on the agenda, the meeting will be restricted to meet the needs of a few with unknown consequence (resistance and sabotage).

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Brian Tracy's Leadership Success

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Once completing his Law degree in London, he spearheaded a nonviolent resistance to the successful campaign for India’s freedom from British rule in 1947. Great leaders are action-oriented and create strategic plans focused on the strengths of the organization, allowing for efficient and effective movements. .

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 31, 2015

Again, it’s our brain’s tendency to find that path of least resistance; of assuaging any uncertainty we may have to grapple with by accepting only those narratives or assumptions that serve to reinforce how we choose to view our leadership and ourselves.

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Management Craft

JULY 25, 2011

Improving workplace efficiencies, quality, safety, and increasing accountability is critical. Even so, increasing accountability can increase job-related stress, resistance, and counter-productive habits. Increased work complexity and the need for greater accountability.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 19, 2015

There is forced participation rather than joint buy-in. Natural resistance to change. Everyone should participate in creating the sales strategies from the CEO down. Whatever the strategies are, they MUST be easy to use and time efficient. The process is not compatible with the way the company does business.

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Brian Tracy's Leadership Success

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Once completing his Law degree in London, he spearheaded a nonviolent resistance to the successful campaign for India’s freedom from British rule in 1947. Great leaders are action-oriented and create strategic plans focused on the strengths of the organization, allowing for efficient and effective movements. .

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The Borg conquers and assimilates other beings and cultures into their single mind approach, saying “resistance is futile.”. Processing them via assimilation is a logical, efficient, and cost-effective way to resolve the issues involved in bringing two organizations together. Resistance isn’t futile. Mergers are complicated.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Research participants who had spent just 15 minutes in “mindfulness” meditation, focusing on their breathing, were 77% more likely than others to resist what’s known as the “sunk-cost bias,” the tendency to stick with a less-than-optimal strategy merely because a lot of money has been sunk into it, says a team led by Andrew C.

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Efficiency Resistance Participative Cost 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2018

In one task, participants simultaneously completed math problems and memorized random letters. In the second task, participants saw a set of images that formed an incomplete pattern, and chose the image that best completed the pattern. Attempts to block or resist this pull takes a toll by impairing our cognitive abilities.

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Coaching Ourselves

JANUARY 5, 2018

This deep appreciation is more difficult than it might seem because we a re very practiced at talking about our jobs as if it is something to be throw n away with light words – the Orwellian ‘newspeak’ that skates over the moral predicaments implicit in ‘process improvement’, ‘downsizing’, ‘efficiency gains’ , performance assessment’ and so forth.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 2, 2020

New ideas are resisted and decisions delayed. Diana Peterson-More contributed Communication How-to’s for Virtual Meeting Participants. It is likely they will become part of the “new normal,” given the efficiency, reduced travel, and enhanced productivity they bring. To avoid virtual miscommunications.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

You may find it necessary to bring in professional facilitation if you are running into excessive resistance or acrimony. In economics, trust is a mechanism of efficiency. The more trust that exists between players, the more efficiently the system, market, or organization will work. Basically, trust produces efficiency.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2012

But, when conducted properly, they can be both efficient and effective, even more so than face-to-face meetings. They don't have to waste their time sitting through the entire meeting; they can participate exactly when they're needed no matter where they're located. Teleconferences can be a huge waste of time. Why change?"

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2015

Without one negotiator asserting strong statements of preferences or priorities and displaying a degree of inflexibility on these issues, compromises are too quickly made and information that negotiators might have otherwise used to discover more efficient agreements are never discussed.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2014

They feel efficient. Studies show we’re a lot better at resisting salt, calories, and fat in the future than we are in the present. Within the study, participants reported their food consumption, mood, and behaviors over a period of 13 days. Which is where our lunchtime decisions lead us astray. So what are we to do?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2016

But we are all accountable for keeping meetings effective, whether we are calling them or simply participating. People won’t always be this cooperative or open to feedback, so employees should be prepared for resistance and tread with caution. We just show up, make our presentations, and try to sound smart. Roger Schwarz.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2018

To accelerate innovation in healthcare technology we need to give creative people who don’t have traditional health science backgrounds more opportunities to participate. In my 20 years of researching and teaching innovation, one consistent theme stands out: breakthrough innovation often comes from outsiders.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2016

We are less efficient, less effective, and more likely to make mistakes when we multitask. Those who had participated in an eight-week mindfulness meditation training were able to focus on a task longer, switched between tasks fewer times, and reported less negative emotion upon completion. And the answer is no.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Ensure live Christmas trees are fresh—green, needles are resistant to pulling, sticky tree base, needle shedding is minimal. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) provides multiple guidelines on how to stay alert during the holiday season and maintain compliance and holiday safety practices that minimize the risk of danger.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

When I ask this question at my leadership seminars, participants inevitably reply with a host of answers – one-on-one meetings, social events, email, and so on – all of which, by the way, are absolutely correct! Every fiber in your body will want to go there,” he said, “but resist the temptation. There is some very good news here.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

A key factor is intense resistance in some political circles to government actions that suggest industrial policy or planning – an aversion that was confirmed during the George H.W. government should encourage companies to participate in the international deliberations that lead to agreements on such things as IP licensing and sharing.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2018

The power of focused attention to craft a strategy or discuss an especially challenging issue with videoconference is much more efficient for everyone involved. If there is a topic that is a priority or is critical to success, and you believe the quality of individual participation is important, try a videoconference.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

We designed a data center that was 38% more energy efficient and that cost 24% less to build than a traditional data center. Since then, we’ve continued to lead the way in terms of energy efficiency. This means that Facebook is the largest participant in the program, and we are really proud of that.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Consider that the basis for the health care market’s inertia — the resistance of the incumbents to changing the volume and direction of the money flowing in the current system — is counted in trillions of dollars. Who willingly will forgo their portion?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2016

What seemed like an efficient conversation or decision process can suddenly feel slowed or even stalled as the objections are discussed. Opposition is necessary, but people typically don’t like it and resist it. Don’t instinctively resist the opposition. Explicitly ask for opposition.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Exercise enables us to soak in more information, work more efficiently, and be more productive. When we view exercise as something we do for fun, we’re better at resisting unhealthy foods afterwards. We are far more likely to stick with an exercise regimen when others are dependent on our participation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2016

Efficient operations that inflict misery on food animals. Experiments and experience show that people resist leaping from innocence to evil, but they can be lured into it one innocuous step at a time. I teach a course in strategic controls at the University of Portland. Fraudulent ac­counting that wiped out jobs and investors.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Naysayers point to low adoption rates of the Stewardship Code among corporate pension plans , limited participation by listed companies that follow the Corporate Governance Code in form rather than in spirit , and continued resistance to outside influence by large numbers of listed companies.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

He had recently commented on a discussion on GHDonline.org regarding critical gaps in the diagnosis and treatment of drug resistant tuberculosis. As GHDonline’s rapid growth and success have demonstrated, they can indeed be a valuable tool for improving the efficiency, quality, and the ultimate value of health care delivery.

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