Word: inertia
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...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...
...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...
...really think there’s always inertia in these kinds of processes but that it’s obvious that we need to decentralize the council,” Mahan said after last night’s meeting. “I can see how people want to get into the details...
Even with the high wages and low productivity, it was years before the bureaucratic inertia of “every tub on its own bottom”—University-speak for the decentralization of labor policies across departments and school—was overcome and labor policies were centralized, an essential first step to contracting out work...