Weigh Your Reliance on Resistors to Change

Many organizations are struggling to speed up, scrambling to adapt, trying to innovate and embrace new technologies, and respond to a rapidly changing workplace.  As many have experienced this can also be very painful too… Despite the apparent ‘gloom’ of current times we’re also in a time of exciting change.

 Nearly half of all major change initiatives that organizations undertake prove to be a disappointment or possibly a failure.

Why does that happen?

All too often, precious resources are being squandered on organizational ‘civil wars’. Those who are fighting change, instead of collaboratively pushing it forward.  They’re pulling in different directions rather than aligning with the change efforts.

These are the ‘resistors’ or ‘insiders’ within an organization.  You may be paying top dollar for these team members. Yet they represent one of the major threats to your organization’s future.

Resistance is the biggest barrier to ‘Change’.  Resistors will oftentimes employ a variety of tactics to attempt to keep the status quo intact, by keeping their collective feet on the brakes of an organization.   But an organization can keep their forward movement and speed going if they weigh the importance of continuing their future with existing ‘resistors’ in place….