Word: inertia
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...with most conundrums in technology law, there is no easy answer. AOL has no incentive to change their terms of service to something friendlier because they possess an enormous amount of inertia that makes it unlikely their users will switch away from their product. Even if users are sufficiently disgruntled to the point that they would do so if they knew this clause was present, we’ve already established that most users almost certainly haven’t read the terms of service to begin with. It’s possible to encrypt AIM conversations so that...
...nurse, and pictures of trees in every patient room--that make for a less stressful and more healing environment. "When you get on the other side of the design process, you think, Gosh, this is just common sense," says Bob Porter, DePaul's executive vice president. "But because of inertia and conditioning, we quickly lose the perspective we need to see those improvements. You have to do things to provoke creativity, and Ideo is great at doing that...
...costs of action are a tiny fraction of the costs of inaction. And yet we must carry out these tasks in a context of global inertia, proclivities to war and prejudice, and understandable skepticism around the world that this time can be different from the past. Here are nine steps to the goal...
...seems that for all their accused liberal political leanings, the faculty shows a strong conservative streak when it comes to change at home. When combined with over 350 years of tradition and devoted and nostalgic alumni, this creates a tremendous amount of inertia that works against the progressive changes that Summers is trying to implement...
...1970s, but by the 1990s, its sundial pace had run up against Internet time. The company needed to reposition itself in a new, networked environment. Fiorina grew up within AT&T and its equipment-making spin-off Lucent Technologies, so she was well versed in the dangers of cultural inertia. At Lucent, she had emphasized speed and aggressive sales targets. "Have I taken risks through my whole life? Yes," she told TIME in a 2002 interview. "The risk that is not worth taking is to do the easy thing and do nothing...