Why do we keep having knee jerk reactions?

[Ubiquitous Duck]

I have had my part in change management operations in my job.

And the thing that always gets banded around in training and preparations is that - regardless how you go about the change you are trying to implement (whatever it is), people will always oppose it. Often this will be with a very defensive attitude and emotive responses.

It's just a natural human response to immediately reject change, even if you are unaware of what it means and have very few details on what it entails and how it effects you. As to why, maybe you would need to ask a psychologist, but as far as I've seen, it is always considered unavoidable to cause trouble with change. Minimising the impact as much as possible is a skill and benefit, but annihilating it completely is mostly considered unattainable.

 

[Exhuminator]

We don't keep having knee jerk reactions. A relatively small number of people do, and they shout loudly about it, so it seems like it's the opinion of a lot of people.

This is exactly correct and 100% the truth, every time.

 

[clippen05]

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Interesting. Did you catch that shareholder question about competing Sony and Microsoft products? I wasn't aware that Microsoft had a competing VR product. Maybe they were talking about that living room immersion thing.

I think that Microsoft initiative you are thinking about, Illumiroom, was scrapped; 'it would have been too expensive for consumers' was the official reason given. But I do know that Sony is supposed to have its own VR thing. My guess is that Microsoft is just copying that now, its not like the Big Three actually innovate, they just copy from each other. (Somewhat sarcasm)