# From the Stage: There Are No Barriers to Change
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From the stage This was one of my opening moments, set to music, and it captures what I believe about innovative organizations: "There are no barriers to change. There's only our resistance to change." When faced with change, innovative organizations "make bold leaps. They make big decisions." Others develop what I call an organizational sclerosis, and it shows up in the most common phrase in business: "you can't do that because we've always done it this way." Why it matters We like to blame external barriers: regulation, budgets, the market, the competition. Sometimes they're real. More often the biggest barrier sits in our own meetings, in the habits and phrases that quietly kill ideas before they get a chance. The world is moving whether we move or not. "you can look at it with fear, or you can look at it as an opportunity." The takeaway List the "barriers" to your biggest idea. How many are really resistance? Ban "we've always done it this way" from your next meeting. Make one bold decision this month. Related: Earlier: Daily Inspiration: "If you aren't thinking big enough then you aren't thinking at all!" (2022) · Consumer & Food From the Stage is a weekday series of short clips from more than 30 years of keynotes, and the leadership lessons that still matter.

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