Resistance: Enmey or Friend?
Lot of people think resistance is the worst enemy of an influencer.
Over the years, I realized that resistance is really a bliss in disguise.IMHO
- Without resistance there might be only one side of the story
- Without resistance one might seize to find new, better ways of doing things.
- Without resistance the risk is completely on you. If anything goes wrong, it would be easy for people to just point at you saying it was her/his idea.
- The worst thing is without resistance I feel people are not passionate about the topic at hand and they are just indifferent. Which means they will not give in their best to make it happen.
Some people talk about healthy resistance and baseless resistance. Personally I don’t see these 2 forms of resistance. When something appears to be baseless to me, I think I’ve not done my job of actually understanding and seeing from the other person’s point of view. A lot of times doing so, provides very interesting insight to various other things as well.
As easy this might sound, dealing with resistance is quite taxing and sometimes the best policy is to let it go and then try to change it later from a different perspective. Influencing is a two way street and is a great opportunity to learn something new.
