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Some people are so set in their ways that they resist innovative ideas even when their benefits are demonstrable. At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City Dick Fosbury amazed the audience when he did something revolutionary - he went over backwards. The traditional way of jumping was to use the straddle. Fosbury won the gold medal [...]  Peter Bregman on the Harvard Business site writes an interesting article on how to handle resistance to change He says, ‘People resist being controlled. And so 70% of all corporate change efforts fail. Here’s what’s interesting: people freely choose to make major life changes every day. We move, get married, start families, face challenges, learn [...] We had a lively meeting of the BQF Innovation Group yesterday. It was kindly hosted by MITIE at their offices in the Counting House near London Bridge. They presented a case study on overcoming resistance to change in a major corporate outsourcing project. We then had a workshop session where we discussed change initiatives and [...] The next meeting of the BQF Innovation Unit will take place on the morning of Tuesday December 2nd in London. It is kindly hosted by MITIE and will be at their offices at 1st Floor, Counting House, London. SE1 2QN (nearest Tube is London Bridge). It starts at 9.15 and finishes at 12 noon. Keith [...] |
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