Whitney Stout, JDA cheap defensive response fires whenever the chance of serious harm passes a low threshold, so most alarms are false. Why small things at work set it off.
Whitney Stout, JDChange is the external event with a date, and transition is the internal process of letting go of the old way and taking up the new one, which runs on its own timeline.
Whitney Stout, JDDoing nothing feels safer because a change's losses weigh more than its gains, a default is chosen more often, and harm after acting is regretted more than harm after inaction.
Whitney Stout, JDChange at work is hard because the brain's defenses respond early to the unfamiliar, change threatens standing and control, and leaving a current arrangement costs more than keeping it.