Before Tuesday's about-face, the Business Roundtable had insisted that the White House extend Bush-era tax cuts to taxpayers of all income brackets, but the executives' resistance crumbled as pressure builds to find a compromise for the fiscal impasse in Washington before the end of the year.
In the same corporate language, another executive at Resistance talks about expanding into other musical genres, including country and western and neo-Classical.
All too often when executives encounter resistance to change, they "explain" it by quoting the cliche that "people resist change" and never look further.
Only 15% of business executives say resistance to AI adoption comes from the top (board of directors or upper management), down from 51% in 2017.
But, equally important, it is essential to recognize that the greater the pressures of day-to-day operating responsibilities on the executive, the more resistance he is likely to have to new ideas.
"The question is, are you willing to play by the new rules?" The task of negotiating with self-important media moguls, though, is likely to be as tricky for Mr. Ojanpera as it was for Steven P. Jobs, Apple's chief executive, who met resistance from entertainment companies and wireless carriers unwilling to give up a measure of control.
Another test of its capacity to resist pitchfork-wielding urges will come in the next few weeks, when it is expected to issue guidelines on executive pay.The stiffest resistance to change is coming not from Wall Street but from Washington, DC, where government officials, regulators and congressional leaders are locked in turf wars and ideological battles.
He clarifies that the legislature is not allowed to dictate any positive action to the executive, its legitimate resistance is only negative.
But even the watered-down version of Trump's executive order encountered resistance in the courts, and the 4th Circuit — which covers the states of Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia — is likely to also find problems with the anti-Muslim statements and sentiments Trump and his associates have exhibited since the ban was first proposed.
Perhaps the associations between performance on this measure and intrusive cognition were due to unforeseen task-specific factors rather than the higher-level executive ability of resistance to PI.
