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Resist the resistance to change
By Harvey Mackay
There's an old saying that goes: It is easy to change things. It is hard to change people. Resistance to change is perhaps the biggest threat to progress a business can face.
Case in point: In 1972, a young engineer at Texas Instruments named Gary Boone came up with the idea for a full computer on a chip, which we now know as the microprocessor. He got a patent even though he had trouble getting his colleagues interested in his work.
Eventually, Boone made enough noise to get a meeting with TI's top computer jockey. Boone explained his idea for a computer on a chip to his superior.
"Young man," said the expert, "don't you realize that computers are getting bigger, not smaller?"
Oops.
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak tried to sell the idea of personal computers to their bosses at Atari and Hewlett-Packard. But their bosses weren't interested. So Jobs and Wozniak started Apple Computer. For the quarter ending September 2010, Apple Inc. had revenues of $20 billion. (I got that information on my iphone.)
By Harvey Mackay
There's an old saying that goes: It is easy to change things. It is hard to change people. Resistance to change is perhaps the biggest threat to progress a business can face.
Case in point: In 1972, a young engineer at Texas Instruments named Gary Boone came up with the idea for a full computer on a chip, which we now know as the microprocessor. He got a patent even though he had trouble getting his colleagues interested in his work.
Eventually, Boone made enough noise to get a meeting with TI's top computer jockey. Boone explained his idea for a computer on a chip to his superior.
"Young man," said the expert, "don't you realize that computers are getting bigger, not smaller?"
Oops.
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak tried to sell the idea of personal computers to their bosses at Atari and Hewlett-Packard. But their bosses weren't interested. So Jobs and Wozniak started Apple Computer. For the quarter ending September 2010, Apple Inc. had revenues of $20 billion. (I got that information on my iphone.)
