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The Positive Resistance Trap: When Helpful Employees Sabotage Change

The Positive Resistance Trap: When Helpful Employees Sabotage Change Why your most helpful employees unintentionally sabotage transformation and how to channel good intentions into transformation success The Positive Resistance Trap Your most helpful, well-intentioned employees will sabotage your transformation—not maliciously, but because they’re trying to protect the organization from what they perceive as risk. This “helpful resistance” is harder to identify and address than outright opposition because it comes from good intentions. Maria is your best team player. She always…

Why Are We Hooked on Speed?

Why Are We Hooked on Speed? Issue 187, November 21, 2024 Why are we always in such a hurry? We launched 5,481,437 startups in 2023. We introduce 91.9 million new websites every year: that’s 252,000 new websites each day. We debut 30,000 CPG products annually to add to the bewildering choice of favorite brands and 30 to 40 new domestic car models every year. It’s no different in the business world; in 2023 the retail trade had the majority of…

Why Do Great Ideas Get Ignored?

Why Do Great Ideas Get Ignored? Issue 168, July 11, 2024 How great are you at getting your ideas understood and accepted? You’ve been mulling over how to solve a problem for a couple of weeks now. You’ve reviewed the facts, recognized the challenges and thought long and hard about how to ensure impressive results. It has been a struggle given so many distractions with the surface noise of meetings, emails and intermittent mental exhaustion. But yesterday you woke up…

Defining Innovation

Defining Innovation Issue 124, August 31, 2023 Innovation is one of the most hackneyed, misinterpreted, and overused buzzwords in today’s business vocabulary. Ask anyone – including yourself – to define innovation in context of the strategy and operations of doing business in the ever-changing digital economy. You may struggle to define it and asking others will often result in wildly different responses. We did a straw poll to see what the general consensus was on what innovation means. Here are…

Ideas + Innovations from 2040: Innovation Theater

Innovation Theater Everyone talks about innovation, but how does it really happen? And what is the difference between authentic innovation and a pastiche of innovation that doesn’t power true transformation or change? As we all know, managing and operating an organization has many underlying parts that come together to create the whole system. A startup has the agility and flexibility to innovate and pivot as its size is small, focused and often committed to solving a particular problem. Once it…

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