Change Is a Team Sport: We All Play a Role, 2040’s Ideas and Innovations, Issue 118

Issue 118, July 20, 2023

Last week we gave you a case study to demonstrate how critical the human factor (and personalities and our own blind spots) becomes in seeking to innovate, make change and transform. Change is ever-present in daily life. It is also a constant in response to an organization’s market, system, and the needs and wants of customers and workforce. Resistance to innovation, change, and transformation is often unintentional given the failure to recognize that it is indeed a team sport where everyone involved must share knowledge and purpose -- and everyone must know their roles and how their roles will evolve.

We are committed to bringing you the stories behind transformational theory and strategy to provide context as well as advice. In this issue, we offer some practical food for thought with our top 11 impediments that influence change and create organizational/cultural resistance.

As a start, we are getting interactive, so please take our pop quiz: Why do you, resist…