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Suggest You - Minimize Resistance and Manage Change
If you are like everyone else then increasing fuel prices are probably affecting you personally. Yet if you are opening a dollar store there are others things to examine other than the personal impact that higher fuel prices put on you and your lifestyle. You also need to consider the impact that higher fuel prices are having or will have on your customers and your business.As fuel prices continue to climb, what are the impacts within the marketplace. How are wholesale prices being affected? What will that extra overhead mean to existing customers? What about potential new customers that may be emerging? Opening a dollar store and then successfully operating that dollar store means that this information and the impacts on the marketplace must be determined and understood.Gathering and analyzing the data associated with fuel price increases may result in some major changes for your business after opening a dollar store. To continue to draw customers and to grow your business may require that you add certain lines of products. Possibly other product lines will need to be reduced as sales decrease. Possibly the hours of store operation will need to change.As fuel costs increase there is an affe
Resistance Reason #1: Perceived Negative Outcome
“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!” Many times members of an organization don’t know the e
Economic pressures developed within the framework of a global marketplace have led to unprecedented numbers of mergers and acquisitions over the past decade.The number of mergers and acquisitions involving US companies alone in 2004 reached 376 with an aggregate total paid of US$22.64 billion. In comparison, in 2003, the total amount paid was US$12.92 billion.However, statistics show that the failure rate of most mergers and acquisitions lies somewhere between 40-80%. If one were to define ‘failure’ as failure to increase shareholder value then statistics show these to be at the higher end of the scale at 83% (Cnnfn.com 1999). The facts highlight a worryingly poor success rate for international mergers and acquisitions. Why?Many business commentators are now acknowledging that failure does not have its roots simply in financial, monetary and legal issues but in lack of intercultural synergy. Research suggests that up to 65% of failed mergers and acquisitions are due to ‘people issues’, i.e. intercultural differences causing communication breakdowns that result in poor productivity.A recent example of such intercultural failure has been that of DaimlerChrysler. Both sides in the partn
With change, comes resistance. That’s simply Newtons Third Law of Energy and Inertia. Unless an external force acts upon us, we like to stay on the course we are headed. James O’Toole has come up with Thirty-Three Hypotheses for Why People Resist Change. I’m not going to list them all here, but if you want to check them out you can find them in his book Leading Change: The Argument for Value Based Leadership (pp.161-164). But here are 5 reasons that people tend to resist change:
Resistance Reason #1: Perceived Negative Outcome
“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!” Many times members of an organization don’t know the e
Have you ever noticed that just when you think you may have found a solution to a problem another problem emerges? Then when you fix that problem, you find yourself back to your original issue? Well perhaps you never had a problem that could be solved in the first place. You may have been dealing with a dilemma or a "polarity" that simply needed to be managed!Dr. Barry Johnson has been working on the Polarity Management" Model and its set of principles since 1975 and this paper has been written to introduce you to some of these concepts. By definition a "problem" is an issue which requires a solution. The goal of a problem is to find a fix to the current situation and move forward to a new reality without being required to ever look back. However, a "polarity" is an issue that needs to be addressed, but the "solution" is not one that can survive independently and will actually still require support from the original issue.Let's look at an extremely basic polarity that we are all managing very well at this precise moment. This is the polarity of respiration that contains within itself 2 basic "problems". The first problem is the human body's need for oxygen. How do we fix this problem? We breathe i
With change, comes resistance. That’s simply Newtons Third Law of Energy and Inertia. Unless an external force acts upon us, we like to stay on the course we are headed. James O’Toole has come up with Thirty-Three Hypotheses for Why People Resist Change. I’m not going to list them all here, but if you want to check them out you can find them in his book Leading Change: The Argument for Value Based Leadership (pp.161-164). But here are 5 reasons that people tend to resist change:
Resistance Reason #1: Perceived Negative Outcome
“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!” Many times members of an organization don’t know the e
A flair for the dramatic is a theatrical term used to describe an actress or actor who has a talent for melodrama, characterized by intensely enacted interpersonal conflict and exaggerated emotions. The central figure in a melodrama is the hero, who spins his tale or portrays the justice of his cause in a positive light. Counterparts include the villain and the fool who are ridiculed and portrayed negatively.Remember Aesop’s Fable, The Boy Who Cried Wolf? The story goes like this. A shepherd boy (self-styled hero) who was responsible for a flock of sheep had a habit of bringing out the villagers by screaming, Wolf! Wolf! When the villagers (fools according to the shepherd boy) came to help him, he would laugh at them and display a just-kidding attitude. The boy repeated his prank three or four times.Unfortunately, one day the wolf (the villain) came and when the shepherd boy screamed in his usual melodramatic fashion that the wolf was killing the sheep, none of the villagers paid any attention to his cries. As a result the entire flock was destroyed.One of the things that make Aesop’s Fables so unique is that there is always a moral to the
Resistance Reason #1: Perceived Negative Outcome
“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!” Many times members of an organization don’t know the e
If you are thinking about starting your own house cleaning business, begin by evaluating your present circumstances. There are no right or wrong answers to these questions, but how you reply will affect what you do.How much strength and stamina do you have? If you have lots, you can schedule more house cleaning jobs than someone who is more average in these ways.What times of the week are you available? If you have a job, weekly meetings of any kind, or children that you want or need to be with at certain times, draw up a schedule of when you can be available for your new house cleaning business. Don't worry if there are only a small number of hours per week that you can work right now. That will be enough to get you started, and you will be glad of the income.Do you want to work alone or with your partner or another friend? If you have someone compatible to work with, it can be more fun to work together. Also, it can make it easier if you or your co-worker gets sick or has a family emergency come up.There are many ways to get customers, and none of them have to cost much. Here are several:Go to a local copy shop and have some business cards made up. (Or make them yourself on y
Resistance Reason #1: Perceived Negative Outcome
“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!” Many times members of an organization don’t know the e
There seems to be a lot of confusion between logos and business identities. As a small business owner it's important that you identify what your logo or business identity is supposed to do for you, and what result you intend on getting from having it designed. Below are two lists that compare side by side what you can expect from a logo and from a business identity. This all comes down faith and belief in yourself and your company. Business owners that invest in a business identity know they have a good business model and want to invest in their future success. Conversely, logo-purchasing business owners aren't confident or self-assured that they'll be in business all that long. Business identity clients see their money going towards an investment; logo clients see their project as a risk and an expense. One last note, logo-purchasing clients who do survive past two years typically end up investing more time and money redoing their business image (and that includes discarding all of the old collateral materials that feature the old logo). My advice: if you have confidence in your ability to sustain and grow your bu
Resistance Reason #1: Perceived Negative Outcome
“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!” Many times members of an organization don’t know the entire picture and see know reason for the change initiative. Change tends to involve the unknown which may illicit fear. It’s always deemed “safer” to simply stick with the status quo. The present situation may not be perfect but at least people know what to expect. With a change initiative, things may get better, but what if they get worse???
Resistance Reason #2: Fear of More Work
People fear that change within the organization will bring about change in their job description and this might mean more work for the employee. What new tasks will they be expected to do? What support or training will they get for these new responsibilities? What if they’re no good at their new job? How will their pay be effected?
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