We expect to get caught off guard sometimes, and we welcome these situations for what they can teach us about ourselves and about life. As a result, we go about our business open to everything life deals to us, instead of trying to protect or defend ourselves. We become more confident and self-trusting, less fearful. Everything we do has more clarity, power, and impact. Determine how well the innovation fits the users needs and how compatible it is with what they are already doing, so that you can redesign the innovation to be more acceptable.
Innovators do have the opportunity to influence acceptance.
40 pages Change happens. If you try to ignore the situation, change will slam into you and knock you off balance. Getting angry won t make it go away in fact, temper typically makes things worse. Wishful thinking is a waste of time, too, so don t sit around thinking and talking about the good old days with the hope they ll return. You can t even run away from it, because there s no place you can run that s beyond the range of change.