The Stress Equation

Address System Inertia

Peter Senge’s book, The Fifth Discipline [Sen94], emphasizes the importance of building learning organizations that can continuously adapt and improve. He describes the resistance to change as the result of entrenched beliefs, norms, structures, and processes that maintain the status quo.

System inertia is often used to describe an organization’s reluctance or resistance to change and adapt. If we cannot adapt, our system inertia will grow into a general resistance that slows us down as we lose the ability to quickly remove blockers that impede our value flow. These impediments can be conditions or practices that steal our time and attention away from creating value and doing meaningful work.

Let the Work Flow

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