1. Change Resistance https://store.theartofservice.com/the-change-resistance-toolkit.html

2. Sustainability and systemic change resistance 1 Change resistance is also known as organizational resistance, barriers to change, or policy resistance.John Sterman, Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World, 2000, pp 5-10. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-change-resistance-toolkit.html

3. Sustainability and systemic change resistance - Overview of resistance to solving the sustainability problem 1 Change resistance runs so high that the world’s top two greenhouse gas emitters, China and the United States, have never adopted the Kyoto Protocol treaty. In the US resistance was so strong that in 1999 the US Senate voted 95 to zero against the treaty by passing the Byrd–Hagel Resolution, despite the fact Al Gore was vice-president at the time. Not a single senator could be persuaded to support the treaty, which has not been brought back to the floor since. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-change-resistance-toolkit.html

4. Sustainability and systemic change resistance - Overview of resistance to solving the sustainability problem 1 Due to prolonged change resistance, the climate change problem has escalated to the climate change crisis https://store.theartofservice.com/the-change-resistance-toolkit.html

5. Sustainability and systemic change resistance - Overview of resistance to solving the sustainability problem 1 These events suggest that change resistance to solving the sustainability problem is so high the problem is currently unsolvable. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-change-resistance-toolkit.html

6. Sustainability and systemic change resistance - The change resistance and proper coupling subproblems 1 Understanding change resistance requires seeing it as a distinct and separate part of the sustainability problem https://store.theartofservice.com/the-change-resistance-toolkit.html

7. Sustainability and systemic change resistance - The change resistance and proper coupling subproblems 1 Jack Harich's 2010 paper on Change Resistance as the Crux of the Environmental Sustainability Problem argues there are two separate problems to solve.Jack Harich, [http://www.thwink.org/sustain/articles/009/Ch angeResistanceAsCrux.htm “Change Resistance as the Crux of the Environmental Sustainability Problem”], System Dynamics Review, January 2010. A root cause analysis and a system dynamics model were used to explain how: https://store.theartofservice.com/the-change-resistance-toolkit.html

8. Sustainability and systemic change resistance - The change resistance and proper coupling subproblems 1 :...difficult social problems [like sustainability must be decomposed] into two sequential subproblems: (1) How to overcome change resistance and then (2) How to achieve proper coupling https://store.theartofservice.com/the-change-resistance-toolkit.html

9. Sustainability and systemic change resistance - The change resistance and proper coupling subproblems 1 : Change resistance is the tendency for a system to continue its current behavior, despite the application of force to change that behavior. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-change-resistance-toolkit.html

10. Sustainability and systemic change resistance - The change resistance and proper coupling subproblems 1 Therefore systemic change resistance is the crux of the problem and must be solved first. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-change-resistance-toolkit.html

11. Sustainability and systemic change resistance - The change resistance and proper coupling subproblems 1 Change resistance is also called barriers to change. Hoffman and Bazerman, in a chapter on “Understanding and overcoming the organizational and psychological barriers to action,” concluded that:Organizations and the Sustainability Mosaic: Crafting Long-Term Ecological and Societal Solutions, Sharma, S. et al., (Ed), 2007. Chapter 4, Hoffman, A. J., and Bazerman, M. H., Changing practice on sustainability: Understanding and overcoming the organizational and psychological barriers to action, p85. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-change-resistance-toolkit.html

12. Sustainability and systemic change resistance - The change resistance and proper coupling subproblems 1 This may be expressed as an emerging principle: systemic change resistance is the crux of the sustainability problem and must be solved first, before the human system can be properly coupled to the greater system it lives within, the environment. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-change-resistance-toolkit.html

13. Sustainability and systemic change resistance - Systemic versus individual change resistance 1 “Systemic means originating from the system in such a manner as to affect the behavior of most or all social agents of certain types, as opposed to originating from individual agents.” Individual change resistance originates from individual people and organizations https://store.theartofservice.com/the-change-resistance-toolkit.html

14. Sustainability and systemic change resistance - Systemic versus individual change resistance 1 If sources of systemic change resistance are present, they are the principal cause of individual change resistance. According to the fundamental attribution error it is crucial to address systemic change resistance when present and avoid assuming that change resistance can be overcome by bargaining, reasoning, inspirational appeals, and so on. This is because:John Sterman, Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World, 2000, p28. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-change-resistance-toolkit.html

15. Sustainability and systemic change resistance - Systemic versus individual change resistance 1 Peter Senge, a thought leader of systems thinking for the business world, describes the structural source of systemic change resistance as being due to an “implicit system goal:” Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline, 1990, p88. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-change-resistance-toolkit.html

16. Sustainability and systemic change resistance - Systemic versus individual change resistance 1 Senge’s insight applies to the sustainability problem. Until the “implicit system goal” causing systemic change resistance is found and resolved, change efforts to solve the proper coupling part of the sustainability problem may be, as Senge argues, “doomed to failure.” https://store.theartofservice.com/the-change-resistance-toolkit.html

17. Sustainability and systemic change resistance - The current focus is on proper coupling 1 The four solutions Gore mentions are proper coupling practices. There is, however, a hint of acknowledgement that overcoming systemic change resistance is the real challenge, when Gore says “...we just have to have the determination to make it happen. We have everything that we need to reduce carbon emissions, everything but political will.” https://store.theartofservice.com/the-change-resistance-toolkit.html

18. Sustainability and systemic change resistance - The current focus is on proper coupling 1 Some solutions are attempts to overcome individual change resistance, such as: https://store.theartofservice.com/the-change-resistance-toolkit.html

19. Sustainability and systemic change resistance - The current focus is on proper coupling 1 However none of the twenty-seven solutions deal with overcoming systemic change resistance. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-change-resistance-toolkit.html

20. Sustainability and systemic change resistance - Overcoming systemic change resistance 1 Efforts here are sparse because environmentalism is currently not oriented toward treating systemic change resistance as a distinct and separate problem to solve. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-change-resistance-toolkit.html

21. Sustainability and systemic change resistance - Overcoming systemic change resistance 1 On how to specifically overcome the change resistance subproblem, Markvart examined two leading theories that seemed to offer insight into change resistance, Panarchy theory and New institutionalism|New Institutionalism, and concluded that: https://store.theartofservice.com/the-change-resistance-toolkit.html

22. Sustainability and systemic change resistance - Overcoming systemic change resistance 1 Taking a root cause analysis and system dynamics modeling approach, Harich carefully defined the three characteristics of a root cause and then found a main systemic root cause for both the change resistance and proper coupling subproblems https://store.theartofservice.com/the-change-resistance-toolkit.html

23. Sustainability and systemic change resistance - Overcoming systemic change resistance 1 Here Meadows refers to the leverage point for resolving the proper coupling subproblem rather than the leverage point for overcoming change resistance. This is because the current focus of environmentalism is on proper coupling. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-change-resistance-toolkit.html

24. Sustainability and systemic change resistance - Overcoming systemic change resistance 1 However, if the leverage points associated with the root causes of change resistance exist and can be found, the system will not resist changing them. This is an important principle of social system behavior. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-change-resistance-toolkit.html

25. Sustainability and systemic change resistance - Overcoming systemic change resistance 1 For example, Harich found the main root cause of successful systemic change resistance to be high deception effectiveness https://store.theartofservice.com/the-change-resistance-toolkit.html

26. Sustainability and systemic change resistance - Overcoming systemic change resistance 1 Promotion of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been used to try to overcome change resistance to solving social problems, including environmental sustainability https://store.theartofservice.com/the-change-resistance-toolkit.html

27. Sustainability and environmental management - Resistance to change 1 Change resistance is also known as organizational resistance, barriers to change, or policy resistance.John Sterman, Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World, 2000, pp 5-10. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-change-resistance-toolkit.html

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