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Why Innovation Doesn't Happen

CJ Westerberg, May 9, 2012 9:53 AM

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Why Change is Hard

Radish or chocolate chip cookie?

Author Dan Heath contends that people who avoid change may be perceived as lazy, when it is really exhaustion, in this video below.

I see it from a different angle. . . . how change-makers may be perceived as having a lack of self-control, by those who honor the old "rules."   Here's the thinking: since innovators don't conform to the status-quo, they lack discipline, so the old-thinking goes. 

In any event, I like what Heath has to say about the amount of energy and
work it takes to create and/or make change happen.  

Check it out below.  What do you think?

                                          - C.J. Westerberg
Orig. pub. 3/2011



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