Lead Change Blog

MAY 30, 2018

Many of us are resistant or ambivalent to networking, seeing it as a necessary evil associated with being inauthentic, pretentious, and disingenuous. Following long hours of travel from the US, relaxing in the hotel sauna seemed a great way to end the day.

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Hotels Conference Resistance Seminar 218

The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 28, 2020

It’s often argued that a time traveler from 100 years ago might be surprised by many things, but stepping into the classroom would be comfortingly familiar. They found that having a phone nearby, and having to resist the urge to use it, had a beneficial impact on people’s ability to concentrate in class.

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Education Technology Resistance Creativity 97

Leading Blog

APRIL 1, 2020

It's the same thought process that enabled Neil Armstrong to take his giant leap for mankind, that allows spacecraft to travel millions of miles through outer space and land on a precise spot, and that brings us closer to colonizing other planets. Fortunately, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to think like one.

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Books Leadership Armstrong Library 285

Next Level Blog

MARCH 23, 2021

I resisted doing so because I was scared to see how bad my sleep numbers would be. Ten years ago, I started taking Lunesta every night to deal with restless sleep caused by my MS and because I was traveling across time zones several times a month for business trips. Even with the Lunesta, I didn’t sleep well.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Playing for parity by traveling the traditional path of best practices just ensures one thing; you will spend great amounts of time and money failing slowly, publicly, and painfully. 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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Leadership Business Model Engineering Fast Follower 308

Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 11, 2019

He can learn to get comfortable with the concept that experience shares common ground with travel—there are usually many routes to a destination. Aware of Darryl’s strong preference for what has always been, his boss encouraged him to envision a tree when faced with something that triggers skepticism and resistance.

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Performance Review Learning-by-Doing Bottom-up Long-term 282

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 22, 2018

Plans may change as you travel and close the gap between where the organization is now and where you want it to go. 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. Offer frequent updates.

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ROI Resistance System Competitive Advantage 179

Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Also, do not assume that lack of proper change implementation is about always about implacable resistance to the proposed change, or even a significant rejection of the values embodies in the change proposal. So, do assume that you may lose people along the way, in one way or another.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2014

I’ve recently been traveling quite a bit and just about anything that happens in an airport qualifies as an opportunity to choose a first action. (It Some get passive, or disengage; others seem outwardly passive yet are really actively resistant. Most of the time, you have the time to choose. When someone cuts in line?

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Tactics Resistance Travel Objective 335

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 22, 2019

Previous research has explored whether people become more tolerant of diversity when they’re more exposed to different races and nationalities, with the findings mixed, with some suggesting that indeed does occur, whilst others suggesting people feel threatened and therefore resist increases in migration.

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Travel Diversity Politics Education 67

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Traveling for work I usually take the stairs in the hotel, airport, office buildings…wherever I go the stairs is my choice of getting up and down. Sometimes the path of least resistance and limited friction works best. Is the path of least resistance right for this situation? Stairs vs. Escalator…What do you choose? I think so….

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Hotels Succession Resistance Travel 128

Experience to Lead

JANUARY 29, 2024

Preparedness and implementing a risk management program are crucial to recovering and resisting the impacts of change, as well as maintaining a competitive advantage. It may not be the road you expected to travel, but the greatest successes often occur on the road less traveled.

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Learning-by-Doing Travel Competitive Advantage Crisis 52

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

According to Travelers Insurance , the situations most likely to cause injuries are: Material handling, with 32 percent of claims. The following numbers also come from Travelers Insurance: Strains and sprains. Identify Common Causes of Accidents and Injuries. Falls, slips, and trips, 16 percent. Cuts and punctures. Inflammation.

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Cooper Insurance Travel Bottom-up 63

QAspire

JULY 18, 2012

I think to be creative, you have to resist taking the easy path. You have to resist common truths, and you have to take certain risk. Not risk for the sake of taking risk, but risk to delve into territories that are not well traveled. David Halberstam. Taking Risks. Daniel Libeskind. Business Creativity.

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Creativity Meyer Resistance Sports 141

Joseph Lalonde

JULY 9, 2018

She had hired two fighter pilots that were traveling with her. You can resist temptation: An American pilot, Donald Curtis (Cary Elwes), had joined forces with the sky pirates. He could give in to the temptation to retaliate or he could resist the temptation and be the bigger man. Resist temptation! Insults were tossed.

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Leadership Discount Resistance Film 195

HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Individuals working a 4-day week report reduced stress levels and an improved resistance to work stress. Additional benefits include reduced travel and child care expenses, more time for volunteer work and other social obligations, and improved moods when returning to work. For some, family time is on priority.

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Automotive Industry Absenteeism Report 98

In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 7, 2014

The principle then travels down through the various functions, and ends at sea level with an individual’s daily “to do list.” People are so entrenched in the do more paradigm that they struggle to kill their darlings , dump all of those exciting initiatives, and sacred cows, and resist adding more features to a product.

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Human Resources Restructuring Competitive Advantage Marketing Strategy 183

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 28, 2018

Leadership guru and author, Simon Sinek recently said, “To affect change inside an organization we must remember why people resist change. To be more specific, people fear the uncertainty that change always travels with. People don't fear change, people like comfort. The status quo is more comfortable than the unknown.”

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Leadership Simon Uncertainty Commitment 247

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 27, 2013

With travel, conferences and organization development, team development, consulting and coaching work supplied me with more ideas and inspiration to work with. Resistance to Change. Meeting Zombies. How to Avoid Your Brain Being Eaten … This is my personal favorite. Favorite Images Used in Workshops and Presentations 2013.

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Team Building Workshop Team Leadership 127

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 7, 2020

People took to social media to highlight the financial savings they’ve made from not dragging themselves to work each day, together with the huge time savings possible when we don’t have to travel an hour or so to get to and from work every day.

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Stress Report Creativity Resistance 138

Women on Business

DECEMBER 31, 2012

Each woman charted her own path to the top; they traveled through a variety of industries: energy, life insurance, technology, retail, and food service. Can’t resist my favorite female quote by Margaret Thatcher , former Prime Minister of Great Britain in her People magazine interview, “If you want anything said, ask a man.

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Entrepreneur Insurance Workshop CEO 170

Persuasive Powerhouse

APRIL 13, 2015

After years of travel, you may come to the end of the journey and find that it wasn’t your own. Resist the pull of external sources of success and reflect on: What puts you in flow in the sense of knowing what puts you into a state of clear focus and happiness. It might be too late to change course.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 28, 2023

Take our trust in air travel after September 11 as an example. Because our trust in air travel is lower because of the terrorist attacks that day, air travel takes more time and costs more. Both are important to building trust and relationships. Where high trust exists things move faster and are cheaper. or “you sound excited.”

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Self-aware Open-book Learning-by-Doing Books 84

HR Digest

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Pursuing a Return-to-Office: Advantages The managers who have been worried about their workforce may have been correct to a degree—many employees did start to face a disconnect from their work considering they weren’t as immersed in it as they would be while traveling to work.

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Policies Strategy Learning-by-Doing Learning Curve 52

The Practical Leader

AUGUST 23, 2023

Joel tries to overpower resistance to change with facts and force. Like someone traveling in a foreign country who can’t speak the local language, he’ll talk louder to be understood. Joel uses position power to make people have to. Denise builds a cause and case for change appealing to the head and heart to get buy-in.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Gym memberships, food provisions, paid time off, travel assistance, stock options, wellness programs, child care assistance, etc., 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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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Question : Traveling for business often derails a person''s healthy eating habits, exercise routine, and sleep routine. What''s the best advice to make business travel as least disruptive? Evans : It can add an extra layer of challenge, but traveling doesn’t have to be the deal breaker we often make it out to be.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

The schedule was reasonable and the travel, this time, was easy. Although business travel can be exciting and even fun, it is a surprisingly profound stressor on the body, mind, emotions, and spirit. But when we travel for business, our performance really matters. Business Travel. But as a business traveler?

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Travel Hotels Stress Competitive Advantage 8

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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Resistance System Servant Leader Banking 50

Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 16, 2019

A well respected thought leader in the the emerging and evolving world of coaching for 30 years, I couldn’t resist. The power of the twice born experience and outlook lies in one’s willingness to continually grow, one’s inclination to take the ‘road less traveled’, to risk trying something outside of one’s comfort zone.

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Self-aware Open-book Handbook Books 113

Experience to Lead

MAY 30, 2023

Our Leadership Experiences immerse leaders in powerful metaphors from professional sports, songwriting and human space travel to bringing leadership lessons into sharp focus. This includes developing a vision for the future, communicating effectively with stakeholders, and managing resistance to change.

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Training Execution Leadership Emotional Intelligence 52

Terry Starbucker

MAY 21, 2017

They had no idea who I was, or why I was there (by then I had changed my travel wardrobe from jackets and collars to polo shirts and casual slacks, so I didn’t stick out in these places like a sore thumb). I traveled to Alamosa once again on the very last part of the trip, and had my usual sit-down with the Fab 5. One More Picture.

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Succession Leadership Commitment Travel 253

Chris Brady

JANUARY 12, 2011

It is the resistance they provide which builds the muscle - as long as the possessor of the muscles is willing to work against that resistance. I used to get angry, then ignore, for awile act as though they don't exist; however, that might be worse As you say the resistance makes us better. Therein lies the key.

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Resistance Letter Blog Travel 129

RapidStart Leadership

MARCH 7, 2017

Without any more context than that, we wondered what sort of philosophical imperative the sign was trying to evoke in busy travelers. With a clear view of the track ahead and a sense of the power under your feet, it would be hard to resist becoming even more excited about the trip.

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Talent Anarchy 1

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

I recently travelled out of town with the man I am dating. We must assume a protective stance for all within our network and resist the temptation to gossip, defame, or throw people under the bus. During the trip, someone asked me why I hadn’t changed my Facebook status to “in a relationship.” Communication.

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Chief Operating Officer Energy Maturity Commitment 106

HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

So the first lesson is to resist the urge to label something “unmeasurable” just because measuring it is hard. One of the greatest privileges of my work is getting to travel the world. One excellent resource to make this easier is Wayne Cascio’s Investing in People.

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Chris Brady

JUNE 30, 2010

  But always and throughout, there wasstrong resistance to English rule and defiant rebellion led by courageousRascals.   But consistent with a longline of English nobleman in Ireland, he would also be accused of being moreIrish than English, becoming instrumental in Ireland's resistance to Englishdomination.

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