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How to Change Things when Change is Hard

By Chip Heath, Dan Heath

Year Published: 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0-385-52875-7
Categories: Change, Influence, Results

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What looks like a people problem is often a situation problem.

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…all the change efforts have something in common: For anything to change, someone has to start acting differently.

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For individuals’ behavior to change, you’ve got to influence not only their environment but their hearts and minds. The problem is this: Often the heart and mind disagree, fervently.

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…psychologists have discovered that self-control is an exhaustible resource.

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Much of our daily behavior… is more automatic than supervised, and that’s a good thing because the supervised behavior is the hard stuff. It’s draining.

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The bigger the change you’re suggesting, the more it will sap people’s self-control.

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Change is hard because people wear themselves out… What looks like laziness is often exhaustion.

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What looks like resistance is often a lack of clarity.

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If you want people to change, you must provide crystal-clear direction.

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You can cajole, influence, inspire, and motivate – but something an employee would rather lose is job than move out of his comfortable routines.

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