{"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. 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&hellip;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifshitz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifshitz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifshitz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifshitz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifshitz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifshitz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifshitz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifshitz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifshitz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}