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How to Lead When Your Inner Critic Holds You Back From Embracing Change #shorts

17 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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A short spoken excerpt (YouTube Short) by Ashish Kothari arguing that apparent resistance to change is often grief over losses tied to identity and personal narrative. The speaker contends many change efforts fail because leaders and change agents avoid acknowledging these losses and the discomfort of discussing them.

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Most people who resist change don't resist change. They are mourning or holding on to a loss that comes with the change. And that loss is so tied to the identity or the story of who they are and what has been done. And yeah, I get so many change agents, so many change efforts. I think they fail because I don't know if you found this in your work, Rosie. I often find people, they don't want to acknowledge the losses because it makes them uncomfortable. Even change regions. I don't want to talk about that. That's your own thing, right? And how can you actually not.