Comments on: Can You Afford to Wait for People to Change on Their Own? http://www.walterbristow.com/2009/07/14/can-you-afford-to-wait-for-people-to-change-on-their-own/ ... and musings on the law, taxes, insurance, and a variety of other topics Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:28:46 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v= hourly 1 By: Vinaya Pai http://www.walterbristow.com/2009/07/14/can-you-afford-to-wait-for-people-to-change-on-their-own/comment-page-1/#comment-590 Vinaya Pai Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:23:32 +0000 http://www.walterbristow.com/?p=1377#comment-590 Hi Walt, Once again after reading your post find myself compelled to add my thoughts. Very often, WHO gives the suggestion seems to determine whether people will change their opinions/habits. Have you noticed how teenagers will accept any suggestions by their peers and resist any by their parents? I have had occasions when a suggestion I had given my mother in law was rejected outright. A few months later the same idea was told to me as something wonderful. I would be pleasantly surprised that she had tried out what I had suggested until she told me that her sister had given her this wonderful new idea! So no matter WHAT the idea is, it is not just HOW it is presented but also WHO presents it can determine whether it is accepted by the recipient. Hi Walt,
Once again after reading your post find myself compelled to add my thoughts.

Very often, WHO gives the suggestion seems to determine whether people will change their opinions/habits. Have you noticed how teenagers will accept any suggestions by their peers and resist any by their parents? I have had occasions when a suggestion I had given my mother in law was rejected outright. A few months later the same idea was told to me as something wonderful. I would be pleasantly surprised that she had tried out what I had suggested until she told me that her sister had given her this wonderful new idea!

So no matter WHAT the idea is, it is not just HOW it is presented but also WHO presents it can determine whether it is accepted by the recipient.

]]> By: Bill Bolding http://www.walterbristow.com/2009/07/14/can-you-afford-to-wait-for-people-to-change-on-their-own/comment-page-1/#comment-399 Bill Bolding Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:00:47 +0000 http://www.walterbristow.com/?p=1377#comment-399 Walt, I have not yet had time to read all your thougths but am impressed with what I have read so far. Your thoughts are like reading the best of the best of readers digest...somthing for everyone. Keep up the good work. I am sending you an invitation to join me as a contact. I would love to have you. Thanks Bill Walt,

I have not yet had time to read all your thougths but am impressed with what I have read so far. Your thoughts are like reading the best of the best of readers digest…somthing for everyone. Keep up the good work. I am sending you an invitation to join me as a contact. I would love to have you. Thanks
Bill

]]> By: Babs Ryan http://www.walterbristow.com/2009/07/14/can-you-afford-to-wait-for-people-to-change-on-their-own/comment-page-1/#comment-316 Babs Ryan Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:23:46 +0000 http://www.walterbristow.com/?p=1377#comment-316 90% of heart bypass patients who were told to change their eating/exercise habits or they would die, had not changed 2 years later (or died). So if you're not going to change even if you'll die... These facts are the premise of my book [<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0981494706?ie=UTF8&tag=walstho-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0981494706" rel="nofollow">America's Corporate Brain Drain</a>America's Corporate Brain Drain] which shows why the best and brightest have left big companies--because the majority of people refuse to change and support innovation. It's also why small businesses and entrepreneurship is the future. http://www.braindrain.biz Posted on theMeatBall / GE Alumni group on LinkedIn.com 90% of heart bypass patients who were told to change their eating/exercise habits or they would die, had not changed 2 years later (or died). So if you’re not going to change even if you’ll die…

These facts are the premise of my book [America's Corporate Brain DrainAmerica's Corporate Brain Drain] which shows why the best and brightest have left big companies–because the majority of people refuse to change and support innovation. It’s also why small businesses and entrepreneurship is the future.

http://www.braindrain.biz

Posted on theMeatBall / GE Alumni group on LinkedIn.com

]]> By: Larry Van Alstine http://www.walterbristow.com/2009/07/14/can-you-afford-to-wait-for-people-to-change-on-their-own/comment-page-1/#comment-306 Larry Van Alstine Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:18:13 +0000 http://www.walterbristow.com/?p=1377#comment-306 Fear of the the unknown? The counter to this reminds me of everyone's favorite radio station: WII FM, what's in it for me. Those who can communicate an appealing benefit to a 3rd party will surivive- thats the challenge of sales. Not much new in this formula. [Posted in the Risk Management & Insurance Professionals group on LinkedIn.com] Fear of the the unknown? The counter to this reminds me of everyone’s favorite radio station: WII FM, what’s in it for me. Those who can communicate an appealing benefit to a 3rd party will surivive- thats the challenge of sales.

Not much new in this formula.

[Posted in the Risk Management & Insurance Professionals group on LinkedIn.com]

]]> By: don perkins http://www.walterbristow.com/2009/07/14/can-you-afford-to-wait-for-people-to-change-on-their-own/comment-page-1/#comment-302 don perkins Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:16:38 +0000 http://www.walterbristow.com/?p=1377#comment-302 Hi Walt Well said. I remember attending a seminar where a buffalo farmer was explaining how to install electric fence. Someone asked him "how do you get a 2500 lb buffalo to go where you want it to?" He said "you have to make the place where you want them to be the kind of place where they want to be." He didn't know it, but he described the essence of my job as a sales engineer. Evidently the art of persuasion has universal application. Blessings Don Hi Walt

Well said. I remember attending a seminar where a buffalo farmer was explaining how to install electric fence. Someone asked him “how do you get a 2500 lb buffalo to go where you want it to?” He said “you have to make the place where you want them to be the kind of place where they want to be.” He didn’t know it, but he described the essence of my job as a sales engineer. Evidently the art of persuasion has universal application.

Blessings

Don

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