{"id":21,"date":"2010-02-06T12:38:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T10:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lifshitz.net\/so-one-of-your-employees-think-they-have-a-great-idea"},"modified":"2014-11-17T16:09:03","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T14:09:03","slug":"so-one-of-your-employees-think-they-have-a-great-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifshitz.net\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"So, one of your employees think they have a great idea&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a marketing book I once read (entitled <i>Marketing Managment (2000<\/i>), by <i>Prof. Jacob Hornik and Prof. Phillip Kotler<\/i>) there\u2019s a chapter about introducing a change into an organization.<\/p>\n<p>Besides discussing various ways to do that, the chapter also talks about the forces fighting the change, and brings a list of \u2018common yet effective ways to fight change\u2019, here it is:<\/p>\n<p>Employee: \u201cI have a great idea!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manager &#8211; quickly choose one or more of the following responses:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It will never work for <i>this<\/i> organization.<\/li>\n<li>We tried it before.<\/li>\n<li>This is not the right time.<\/li>\n<li>It can\u2019t be done.<\/li>\n<li><i>We<\/i> don\u2019t work that way.<\/li>\n<li>We\u2019re doing great without this.<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s too expensive.<\/li>\n<li>Let\u2019s discuss this in our next meeting.<\/li>\n<li>\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a marketing book I once read (entitled Marketing Managment (2000), by Prof. Jacob Hornik and Prof. Phillip Kotler) there\u2019s a chapter about introducing a change into an organization. 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