I envy your encounters with these gurus!

As for your writings and research on resistance and inertia – I am interested to find out more.
I am in a process of assembling my second ebook and the topic will be specifically Resistance.

My take on it is to focus on 'Indifference' – which may turn out to be the same as the 'inertia' you refer to.

Thanks!

Luc.

I also share your bias about firms that promise resistance solutions. To carry the point further, I think the term resistance has been misapplied so as to make it a nearly useless concept in group situations. To be certain, it sometimes exists, but not in the behaviors or expressions most consultants say it does.

The term has its roots originally in physics, and was adopted in the 1930's to specify a category of psychological behavior related to ego defense. Neither of these hold, if you examine it closely, in most group situations, but has become a catch all term for any challenges presented to a proposed change.

I have written about this, but to spare you the long exegesis, I have created/modified a change theory by replacing resistance with inertia…. and having resistance only as a subset condition affecting inertia. This has yielded both conceptual and practical benefits.