Comments on: More Evidence on the Good Nature of Resistance http://www.reply-mc.com/2008/01/13/more-evidence-on-the-good-nature-of-resistance/ If you can’t explain it to your grandmother, forget it --- Luc Galoppin Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:57:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Shaun Kieran http://www.reply-mc.com/2008/01/13/more-evidence-on-the-good-nature-of-resistance/comment-page-1/#comment-101 Shaun Kieran Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:02:46 +0000 http://www.reply-mc.com/2008/01/13/more-evidence-on-the-good-nature-of-resistance/#comment-101 I really like your point, have made it myself often to clients, and have only a minor quibble. Too often when organizational behavior gets discussed, the workplaces being talked about all seem to have only mature, sincere professionals and “knowledge workers” who think about what they think, and have ideas about what’s happening. Many of the workplaces I’ve consulted to are much more elemental than that, and therefore it’s not beyond reason to find that some resistance is - in fact - aggression, hostility, anxiety, inertia, jealousy, resentment, mean spiritedness, etc. The point is that it’s laughable and pretty obtuse to assume that there’s no valuable information to be gleaned from resistance, and very important to validate that good faith resistance by people invested in the success of the organization can be chock full wisdom. Can be. It isn’t always, though I really like your point, have made it myself often to clients, and have only a minor quibble. Too often when organizational behavior gets discussed, the workplaces being talked about all seem to have only mature, sincere professionals and “knowledge workers” who think about what they think, and have ideas about what’s happening.

Many of the workplaces I’ve consulted to are much more elemental than that, and therefore it’s not beyond reason to find that some resistance is – in fact – aggression, hostility, anxiety, inertia, jealousy, resentment, mean spiritedness, etc.

The point is that it’s laughable and pretty obtuse to assume that there’s no valuable information to be gleaned from resistance, and very important to validate that good faith resistance by people invested in the success of the organization can be chock full wisdom. Can be.

It isn’t always, though

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