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Your People are the Hard, not the Soft Side, of Change

Great Leadership By Dan

If you do, you’ll build tremendous loyalty, trust, and engagement, which is priceless. What seems like resistance is often fear of the unknown. They resist the new way because they’re afraid of losing competency, status, control, relationships, turf, meaning, and/or identity. This fear mires them in resistance.

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Love and Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

They resist at all costs letting that dreaded public display of compassion slip out. Leaders who show compassion are respected, trusted, and enjoy the loyalty of those they lead. People’s resistance to display compassion, other than to family and friends, is what makes it so complex. I Think Not.

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Are you a social sales pacesetter? Or are you losing business to one?

Strategy Driven

Often referred to as pacesetters, companies that have chosen to embrace and engage cloud, analytics, mobile, and social strategies are cleaning the clock of their competitors who have chosen the path of cautious resistance or even abstinence. NOTE WELL: The real pacesetters are using all four strategies – not one or two. About the Author.

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Followership : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

Although most people do not have the personal magnetism of an Oussama Bin-Laden or a Martin Luther King, there is a subset of people who can engender a strong sense of loyalty in others. Trust is a common factor in the cost-benefits analysis, compliance with authority, or loyalty to leaders hypotheses.

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4 Models for Using AI to Make Decisions

Harvard Business Review

The bad news: Petabytes of new data and algorithmic innovation assure that “autonomy creep” will relentlessly challenge human oversight from within. Top management told store managers and staff to honor requests and obey directives from their new “colleagues”; the resentment and resistance were palpable.

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How to Create Remarkable Teams PART 2 – Collaboration

Ask Atma

The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation. Integrity – ability to inspire/engender trust and loyalty. You may find it necessary to bring in professional facilitation if you are running into excessive resistance or acrimony.

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Drive Engagement and Retention Using Social Platforms

Harvard Business Review

Regardless of your technology framework, don't make the tool or the interaction overly complex or artificial. With the focus on the primary function the tool is supposed to perform, it's easier to resist the temptation to "overbuild" the application or go feature crazy. The Social Solution to Innovation Challenges. Incentives.

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