6 Reason for People to Resist

We had a meeting today between a customer and our CISO, Bret Arsenault. As always Bret was giving a lot of insights into his world and he was talking about our cloud transformation. Obviously, there was a time, where our migration stalled, and they were trying to figure out, why. He then learned from somebody, that there are only 6 reasons, why people resist, and they can be summarized by FFUUEE:

• Fair: The task doesn’t seem reasonable.
• Fear: The person performing the task is afraid of it.
• Understand: The task doesn’t make sense to the performer.
• Urgent: There’s a lack of pressure to complete the task.
• Entitled: The person doesn’t feel they should have to take the task on.
• Exhausted: The employee doesn’t have the bandwidth to complete the task.

An interesting model to look at and think about yourself – when are you resisting to do something? It most probably violates one of the points above.

Roger Halbheer

Roger Halbheer is an Executive Security Advisor at Microsoft in EMEA acting as a trusted advisor to CxO. Before that he was a Managing Director at Accenture's Financial Services. Before joining Accenture, he was the Chief Security Officer of Swisscom (Switzerland's largest telecom provider) and the global Chief Security Advisor for Microsoft.

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