You're listening to The Game Changer Life with Dave Anderson, the show about how to thrive, take charge of your mindset, and be unstoppable in business and all

aspects of your life. This is the Game Change Your Life podcast with Dave Anderson.

Welcome to the Game Change Your Life. I'm Dave Anderson in our Agora Hills, California studio.

And the topic I want to talk with you about today is 10 common reasons change initiatives

falter or fail outright. If you're in any type of an organization, especially if you're in a

leadership position, you're trying to build a game-changing unstoppable organization. You change some

things. There are new processes, new strategies sometimes, new pay plans, new, you name it.

There's always something, a new product launch, a new marketing campaign.

You can go on and on.

Why don't they stick like you'd like them to?

Why do they fizzle into the fray?

Why do we make progress for a while, only to end up in a short

time being right back to where we started. It happened one slow, backward step at a time,

and now we're worse off for trying to change because we've wasted time and resources and lost

credibility. Or sometimes it never really gets out of the gates.

It never gets the traction you need.

Well, John Cutter did a great book years and years ago called Leading Change,

and he talked about this dynamic.

And he also talked about how to overcome these things. But first, I want to see if any of these sound familiar to you, we'll talk a little bit about, you know,

your biggest vulnerability is the one you're not aware of.

So if you're not aware of maybe these have been some of the pitfalls that have, you know,

caused you to get bogged down, to never get in that change rhythm,

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