But, how much longer can we afford to remain stubbornly resistant to change and solutions?
Even though our nation has grown more diverse, the corporate boardroom is proving resistant to change.
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France's huge union-dominated education system, with 1m teachers in over 70, 000 schools, is stubbornly resistant to change.
" Sunny deflects the charges, saying, "People who are resistant to change will derail every project in India.
Too often organizations, especially those resistant to change, stand on principle when they really are standing on process.
Because she writes, the only thing more naturally resistant to change than a human being is a company.
Why are human beings so easy to manipulate but so resistant to change?
In Japan, as in France, such people are resistant to change.
The federal court system, long on tradition and resistant to change, needs to join the overwhelming majority of state courts which allow video coverage of judicial proceedings.
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Some old-school cleaners are so resistant to change that the company still stocks brass-handled squeegees, even though newer models made of plastic offer protection against cold temperatures.
Ch Supt Babu, who has spent the past three-and-a-half years as commander of the London borough of Harrow, said many chief constables had been resistant to change.
Another complaint made by Thai teachers is familiar elsewhere in the region: that the government's administration of schools and universities is cumbersome, centralised and resistant to change.
"People are resistant to change, " says Jerry Brown of HUD, adding that demolishing and renovating the public housing is a step toward improving it, and ultimately helping people.
The medical profession is unfortunately exceptionally resistant to change, and the demands of physicians for suitable evidence may at times provide cover for its profound lack of plasticity (6).
Hopefully, Europe is as resistant to urban change as it is to the technological kind.
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But he is already finding that South Korea's political culture is strongly resistant to rapid change.
Mr Tusk's brainwave was to hand the issue not to a special ministry (easily nobbled by Poland's change-resistant civil servants) but to lawmakers.
The pilot project will include about 10, 000 households, and these residents could create an online account to not only view their reports but also browse rebates offered by the water district to buy water-efficient household items such as clothes washers and toilets or to change the landscaping of their lawns to use drought-resistant, native plants.
She said Mumbai has been "begging" the central government to change its policies so that drug-resistant patients are first tested thoroughly before being put on a particular cocktail.
Lucas, however, has a reputation of pushing a change-resistant film industry in directions it didn't want to go.
History is replete with instances in which warning signs were ignored and change resisted until an external, "improbable" event forced resistant bureaucracies to take action.
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