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Sunday, October 27, 2024

Inertia: Applying Newton's First Law to Organizational Change

During another mentoring session with @Joseph Pelrine, I shared my experience of an "Italian strike" — a deliberate slowdown launched by a "conservative wing" content with the current status quo, in response to my initiatives, with the organization aiming to minimize my influence by stretching out every task.

At one point, Joseph interjected: "Piotr, do you know Newton's first law? The law of inertia. It says that keeping things unchanged requires no time and no energy."


Honestly, the toughest aspect of the organizational coach work is to unfreeze the human system and encourage it to change. Every time I must earn it by investing enough time into relations and building trust.

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