Avoid saying ”yes, but”

In this 5½ video, Vineet Nayar mentions that he thinks there are 3 kinds of people in any organization:

1. Transformers

People who, for example, search for new ideas and spread positive energy. They are catalysts for change.

2. Lost souls

People who think that everything is bad.

3. Fence-sitters

These people are the “yes, but” managers. They can neither make up their minds to be transformers nor lost souls. Each of these people has the ability to be a transformer and need to wake up the transformer in them. Mr. Nayar mentions that once you step into the transformer zone, life is beautiful – very, very beautiful.

Listening to Mr. Nayar, I also came to think about reasons why people resist change. Here are 5 reasons.