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…our brain is a finely tuned machine dedicated to protecting the status quo, and trying a new way of thinking or behaving can send alarm bells ringing…
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As managers, we’re responsible not just for the status quo, but for improving the performance of the whole team.
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Great leaders understand… that historical success tends to… reinforce a feeling of contentment with the status quo.
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…even people who are most solidly content with the status quo will begin to act differently if a fire starts on the floor beneath their feet.
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Those who feel content with the status quo – feel being the key word, and not what they necessarily say – put themselves in a more and more dangerous position.
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In any contest between change and the status quo, the status quo has home field advantage. All things being equal, we won’t change.
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…it’s the odd out-of-left-field dissenting voices, the ones challenging groupthink and the status quo, that make an organization hum and thrive.
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Societies have a strong status quo bias, particularly if they have high status relative to other parts of the world.
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…research shows that givers get extra credit when they offer ideas that challenge the status quo.
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…the status quo is the path you’re already on or the way you’ve always done things. The bias is that we have a preference to stick with those decisions, methods, and paths that we’ve already set upon, and a resistance to veering from them into something new or different.
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