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It’s a medical fact that our habits can be seen in our brains, in the form of neuropathways. As we repeatedly perform an action, the neuropathways strengthen. The benefit to this is it takes less effort to perform an action that you do all the time (like brushing your teeth) than it did the first time you learnt how to do it. The downside is that the chemical neuropathway needs to be broken down literally to break a bad habit. When you mention that, most people immediately picture lifestyle habits, like the order you do things in the shower or a repetitive behaviour like picking at your nails. Not many people apply it to their work life or their business.

Large corporations know that change can be difficult and uncomfortable for some people and they employ change management experts to hold people’s hands along the way. This is usually doing a corporate restructure or job losses, which come with emotional stress of their own, even if you’re not directly involved. It’s rarely used during an IT systems change… Read more on LinkedIn