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Working from your Strength - Leveraging the positives in your style - Part 3 Why is it hard to change? - Why people like the old stuff. Survey
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Working from your Strength
- Leveraging the positives in your style - Part 3We continue what we started in September and October look at a few more positive traits that can be capitalized upon. From the past Journals we covered... 1. You are Dependable 2. You are Organized 3. You are Investigational 4. You are a Trailblazing Pioneer 5. You are Planner 6. You are a Coach Now we move to... 7. You are an Arbitrator You can work with anyone and get anyone to work with you. You can lead teams and get people to agree on project decisions. You are good at moving issues forward even when people disagree. You can find common ground when opinions are on opposite corners of a subject. Read More... Why is it hard to change? - Why people like the old stuff. I just had to go buy a new washer. The old one broke. Lots of smoke and smells and no clean cloths. So my wife and I go to the store after doing some internet research and buy a new one. It is delivered the next day. Installed - nice and shiny and new. I could not wait to get some laundry in this thing and try it out. Then the impact of my change set in. It was not the same as my old washer. The agitator did not agitate like the old one. It took longer to wash the cloths than before. It took longer to fill the tub with water than before. The cycles made different noises than the old one. The knobs had different settings. The buzzer sounds different when the cycle is done. Don't get me wrong, the new one is more efficient, uses less water, operates quieter and looks a whole lot better. But I liked the old one. In his book 'The Change Function", Pip Colburn points out different perspectives of suppliers and users and how it affects change...
Now - transpose my thinking on the washer to the CAD arena. When new software is rolled out, the users have the same kind of reaction. They like the old and they question the value of the new. I have seen it time and time again. October 2007 Survey 2D or 3D? - what are you creating and receiving? I asked the same question from October of 2005 to see what the difference might be. The results show me that there is a continued move toward 3D. As you can see the 3D percentages have increased.
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Falling into November Continuing the focus on our positives, we look at three more ways of taking your best and using it to your advantage and the advantage of your firm. We discuss change and what slows it down and how to make it happen. Mark W. Kiker, Editor ON THE WEBSITE
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