Like it or not, many industries are resistant to change. After all, most people don’t like change, either. The status quo works well (or at least well enough), and the perceived dangers of trying to ...

Change tends to be difficult. This is true whether the change in question is something as personal as a New Year's resolution or as impersonal as updating a business procedure or law. Nevertheless, it ...

I recently read a piece by Miller and Fillat (2023) discussing issues inherent in the “Do Something Syndrome” as it relates to politicians and policymaking. Though the Do Something Syndrome sounds ...

We have always done it that way. It worked so well in the past. Why would we ever want to fix something that isn’t broken? That way of thinking is what kills organizations. When we do things because ...

The more difficult the decision we face, the more likely we are not to act, according to new research by UCL scientists that examines the neural pathways involved in 'status quo bias' in the human ...

During my 25 years as a lawyer and human rights advocate, I've been in many courtrooms in many places. But I've never seen anything quite like what I recently witnessed in Bahrain. I sat in on one of ...