Leadership Experiences

"People don't resist change as much as [they resist] the way they are changed" (Winston Churchill). Explain what this means, and given an example from your own experience to either substantiate the statement, or to refute it.

When I was in high school, I joined an innovative club. It was very enthusiastic for everybody including teachers who led this club. We believed that the impassive idea was what changes the way do things. We were encouraged to do things better or easy way out for more benefit and good. We were always believed people buy in to innovations because our audiences were full of thrills toward our findings and things. So what? Eventually I realize we were not quiet right.

In my mind, the following thought resurfaced and sank time to time with my work world experience. People do not embrace my good proposals, or anybody else’s. They habitually sack the thought as unfeasible or unreasonable. In worst, they would fight it as if it were some immoral or wickedness. I thought those who resist innovation and change would belong to an unfortunate list of Charles Darwin’s survival theory.

Today I think people oppose or support new ideas because they face changes based on their experience and needs. They resist whatever way without considering what benefits would bring to their team or institution because of fear of loosing something from them. When change take place there may be mislead or loosing trust among the folks who oppose changes due to lack of access to enough information. This lack of communication falls in to believe expenses outlaw benefits. Last but not least human beings trend to have basic mental need to have trustworthiness, stability, and order in the way they perceive the world. One would agree this as stick with status quo or general lack of tolerance for change. When new findings question their current position, they suffer nervousness and invade to cynical mode of one way or other. Then there comes war of denial, excuses, and any tactic to throw out emerging changes.

Two things I can point out from these experiences.

1. Human beings work for their own benefit. They make decisions first emotionally and they desperately look for logic to prove it.

2. Changes just not happen unless make it happen. It won’t happen just because of good idea.