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Overcoming Resistance to Change
Written by: Ben NashArticle Overview: Immunity generally refers to your physical well being (particularly in the current H1N1 epidemic); but Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey have written a book that deals with psychological rather than physical immunity.
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Overcoming Resistance to Change
Immunity generally refers to your physical well being (particularly
in the current H1N1 epidemic); but Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey
have written a book that deals with psychological rather than physical
immunity.
Their book: “Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the
Potential in Yourself and Your Organization” proposes that our deeply
held and sometimes unconscious beliefs create a natural but powerful
immunity to change.
The downside is that the greater our immunity to change, the less
effective we are in our personal and professional lives. Deciphering
our immunity to change, they say, lets us know what is holding us back
and brings into focus our potential to move forward.
Their approach do diagnosing immunity to change is deceptively simple. You need to identify the following three factors:
- Identify what you are doing now instead of what you need to do
- Recognize the competing commitments that cause you to do the things you do rather than the stuff you should be doing
- Diagnose the “big assumptions” (either conscious or unconscious) that drive you do what you are doing
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About the Author: Ben Nash RSS for Ben's articles - Visit Ben's website  Ben Nash is the editor-in-chief of DailyHRTips.com. He is the founder and chief developer of the blog, providing tech/design support as well as tips and book reviews. Ben has held many interesting jobs in his professional career, including: barista, landscaper, public policy intern, barista (again), professional horse wrangler, ski lift attendant (aka "liftie"), political science teaching assistant, marketing and sales assistant, and an ecommerce/web developer. He also doubles as the Creative Director at Aspen Organization Development Consulting. Ben has interacted with many people, in many different organizations and offers some interesting insight on the human resources game. You can read his blog at http://www.DailyHRTips.com and visit his website at http://www.AspenOD.com. Click here to visit Ben's website   Hire People with Organizational Grit We Dont Want to be Downers but are your Career Prospects Evaporating The Assessment of Intellectual Functioning in the Work Environment The French Open and Customer Service Training Change Employee Communication and Avoid the Golden Bull |
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- [quote="TheAnonymousMan":2f894q6j]When discussing the majority of people I would definitely say that most people hit the "Change" or "Ignore" button without thinking too much about the correct spelling of a word. All bosses are concerned about is getting the report to the Directors meeting on time.[/quote:2f894q6j]
That probably depends on what the "majority" are trying to accomplish. I have word set to alert me about misspellings and grammatical problems, so I fix most as I go. But I also add names etc to the dictionary because I get tired of seeing the red and green squiggles when I know the info is right.
If you're only going to click "Change" or "Ignore" then why bother to take the time to use spell check????? Business people that I work for want the info compiled in a timely manner and they want it right - which is fine because that's the way I strive to do any project. Sending out a memo, letter, report etc with obvious spelling and grammatical mistakes makes the person and the company look bad as far as I'm concerned.
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It is only fairly recently that people in South Africa have been able to get full use of Paypal as we were only able at one time to make payments but not receive them. Fortunately this has now changed. I have received money through Global X Change for one of the affiliate programs that I promote and have found them pretty good as the money is normally transferred directly into my bank account within 2-3 days and I have not had any problems with them.
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- 1) if you find yourself saying yes without thinking about how it will affect your other priorities
2) you have over 10 projects/inventions going on at the same time and this seems normal to you
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