Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Few organizations have the appetite for change found at Facebook, Google, Amazon, and other innovative firms. But what do you do in a context that resists change? Form an innovation team. The company website shares the full story of how this team delivered the new fighter jet and sparked an innovative culture at Lockheed Martin.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

As your team is growing resist the urge to solve problems FOR them and teach them how to think. Build an infrastructure for courage and innovation. When you’re a strong, influential leader, and things are going well, it’s easy to overestimate the leadership capacity of your team.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Innovation is perhaps the most used word in corporate boardrooms today. Big companies have all the required resources, but also a lot of red-tape and resistance to change. Moreover, innovation is not as simple as having fresh ideas and executing them well. Also, innovation doesn’t always mean a flashy new idea.

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Mike Cardus

MAY 21, 2023

Persuasion skills: The ability to effectively persuade and influence stakeholders is essential, particularly when faced with resistance or political challenges. Using language or data that resonates with key individuals can help overcome resistance and facilitate a win-win-win outcome.

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Although these clichés might serve short-term management objectives, they often hinder long-term innovation, suppress employee morale, and foster a culture of compliance over mutual growth. Clichés such as ‘We’ve always done it this way’ stem from a historical resistance to change.

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LDRLB

OCTOBER 4, 2011

I’ve just finished reading another good article about an innovator’s need to open the mind. Articles like these always make me wonder: Doesn’t the other 95% of the business need to innovate, too? Their reactivity drags down whatever innovations do arise, and it’s really too bad.

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LDRLB

OCTOBER 4, 2011

I’ve just finished reading another good article about an innovator’s need to open the mind. Articles like these always make me wonder: Doesn’t the other 95% of the business need to innovate, too? Their reactivity drags down whatever innovations do arise, and it’s really too bad.

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Lead from Within

JULY 31, 2023

Are you resistant to change? Innovation is key, especially when operating environments are changing quickly. If you find yourself becoming arrogant or dismissive of others’ ideas, it’s time to take a step back and refocus on leading with humility. Reacting to change is different from bringing about change.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 27, 2023

Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) implementation can be a transformative journey for organizations, enabling them to achieve operational excellence and drive sustainable growth. Change management strategies should be in place to address resistance and challenges that may arise during the implementation journey.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Your business now operates as part of a global digital eco-system where leveling the playing field has become a digital impossibility. Focus Point #2: Redefine your future and get there first – resist the temptation to chase others in pursuit of their future as already defined by them.

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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 9, 2013

Resistance to Change and Learning Anxiety. The district managers operated under a control and command system and asking them to switch to coaching & feedback was met with great resistance. People resist change because they think that no-one is doing it…this is reinforced by peer groups creating confirmation bias.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2021

To better understand the challenges of changing the mindset of employees at an organization, we should identify the factors causing this resistance to change. Step 4: Operations alignment. Not surprisingly, the biggest challenge he faced was changing his colleagues’ mindset to get them on board with the changes. And why is that?

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

In today’s faster paced, interconnected world, there’s little doubt that change is the new reality; the new standard by which we now have to operate. It’s the question that serves as the basis of my talk with innovation expert and author, Braden Kelley.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 28, 2020

Leaders who may have previously resisted extending the option of remote work to employees out of a concern that it will negatively impact productivity were relieved to see the opposite. Related to that is collaboration and innovation. If operational distance is an issue, technical problems should be addressed.

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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. So how can knowledge actually be a curse? Consider a few of the ways. Jump to Conclusions.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The analysis reveals six tactics commonly used to manage stereotypes when operating in male-dominated roles or industries. This reality might fuel women’s resistance to taking on advisory positions and explain the disproportionate levels of burnout that women experience from having to regulate their behavior constantly.

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Experience to Lead

JANUARY 29, 2024

Businesses regularly establish routines in the way they operate, but when problems arise and they’re thrown a curve ball, those routines and competencies may no longer work for the situation managers find themselves in. In turn, this creates space for a resilient workplace culture to flourish and generate sustainable ways of operating.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

If units share knowledge with one another related to operation management, it improves firm performance—but both practice and research show that inter-unit knowledge transfer is never easy.” The results show that narcissistic executives were much more likely to share knowledge when they operated in a complex or dynamic environment.

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Talent Anarchy 1

AUGUST 26, 2023

People and businesses will always need to move goods and passengers, making this industry resistant to economic downturns. Even during challenging times, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, essential transportation services remained operational, highlighting the industry’s resilience.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

The research found that such placements can be hugely influential, especially in securing entry into high-level professional services firms, where social mobility has been most resistant to change in recent years. What young people want. This includes giving delivery riders fairer pay and conditions.

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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

APRIL 10, 2023

It can be driven by internal factors, such as a need to follow HR trends, or improve operations, or external factors, such as regulatory changes or economic shifts. Effective change management can lead to increased employee engagement, productivity, and innovation. This can include coaching, mentoring, and counseling.

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In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 7, 2014

To rise from the ashes, our young management team made several tough sacrifices to transform a multi-product, multi-brand operation from generalist to specialist. This turnaround occurred at Jacobs Suchard’s North American operation, eventually sold to Kraft/Mondelez after many years of profitable growth as a coffee specialist.

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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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The Practical Leader

JUNE 4, 2019

Resistance to change. The study reports, “We found that companies with the combined impact of all three exponential engagement factors can generate operating margins three times higher than companies with low engagement, and nearly two times higher than companies with high engagement alone.” Rising absenteeism.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 28, 2022

Famous research from Stanford’s Nicholas Bloom illustrates the difficulties we face in keeping the wheels of innovation turning. Bloom illustrates that while we’re spending more on research and innovation than ever before, we’re getting diminishing returns for that investment. Engines of creation.

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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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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

Instead, longevity is based on entrepreneurial thinking and innovation – in exploring ways to adapt corporate and business strategies in response to market, technological, and social and cultural change. Resistance from Within. The most significant hurdle by far is resistance to change from within. Resistance from the Supplier.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

When it finally came to my attention, I realized right away that large-scale, controlled experimentation would revolutionize the way all companies operate their businesses and how managers make decisions. Why do many business leaders resist it? I had no idea how their use would fuel the rise of today’s online businesses.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 28, 2014

One of these conversations lead to a discussion about how leaders who want to push for change can deal with those above them who operate from the command-and-control style of leadership – in other words, those that subscribe to the overtly-controlling it’s my way or you’re out approach.

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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 29, 2012

The one thing rule applies because work systems operate in weird and emergent ways, changing one thing will have impacts up and down the work that are not expected. You may get some resistance and “ that will never work here ”; If you getting those responses stick to your solution development , success happens in iterative steps.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Biologically ironic to our human nature, most people adamantly resist change. Change can also offer an enormous amount of benefits, like growth in a career, innovation for the future, and discovering new possibilities in life. Yet it remains one of the only constants in life. It disrupts the status quo and requires us to take action.

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Experience to Lead

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Rather than reacting to change and constantly putting out fires, how can you guide your organization to become an innovative leader in change? Understand That Change Is Necessary People are unlikely to play their role in organizational change if they don’t understand why new ways of operating are needed.

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QAspire

MARCH 13, 2011

Understand People because effective change implementation is not possible without understanding how people operate. With this understanding, managing resistance becomes a little easier. Innovate In Process itself, without getting fixated on best practices.

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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? While entrepreneurs are clearly talented innovators and visionaries, most first time entrepreneurs don’t have prior experience as a CEO.

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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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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Don’t utilize your competitions practices, but rather innovate around them and improve upon them to create an advantage that can be leveraged in the market. Innovation, improvements, or these 'Next' Practices should be looked at in all facets of your business value proposition, your core. As an example, Look at Apple!

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