{"id":891,"date":"2005-01-01T07:44:50","date_gmt":"2005-01-01T07:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=891"},"modified":"2005-01-01T07:44:50","modified_gmt":"2005-01-01T07:44:50","slug":"the_vigor_of_an","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=891","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;&#8221;The Vigor of Antibodies&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How to Change the World: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/asin\/0195138058\">Social Entrepeneurs and the Power of New Ideas<\/a>, by David Bornstein revolves around Bill Drayton:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/asin\/0345402545\">James O&#8217;Toole<\/a>, an expert in management and leadership, observes that great thinkers throughout the world agree that &#8220;groups resist change with all the vigor of antibodies attacking an intruding virus.&#8221; O&#8217;Toole examines a number of cases in which a potentially beneficial institutional change was resisted and finds that the resistance occurs when a group perceives that a change in question will challenge its &#8220;power, prestige, and satisfaction with who they are, what they believe, and what they cherish.&#8221; He asserts: &#8220;The major factor in our resistance to change is the desire not to have the will of others forced on us.&#8221; <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Interesting and useful, via <a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.infoworld.com\/udell\/2004\/12\/31.html#a1141\">Jon Udell<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Change the World: Social Entrepeneurs and the Power of New Ideas, by David Bornstein revolves around Bill Drayton: James O&#8217;Toole, an expert in management and leadership, observes that great thinkers throughout the world agree that &#8220;groups resist change with all the vigor of antibodies attacking an intruding virus.&#8221; O&#8217;Toole examines a number of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}