by Linda Hoopes | Jun 29, 2017 | Blog, Organizational Resilience, Research
I started my change management career in 1991, as the research director for ODR, a company founded by Daryl Conner that trained many of the senior change agents practicing today. The tools and concepts developed by ODR, and the ideas proposed in Daryl’s first book...
by Linda Hoopes | Apr 10, 2015 | Blog, Research
I received the following question from a resilience practitioner: I continue to frame an individual’s stronger resilience characteristics as, just that, strengths—even gifts. (Where appropriate, I am promoting the idea of strength areas being a stewardship to...
by Linda Hoopes | Sep 21, 2010 | Research
I just talked to a professor in France who was exposed to the Personal Resilience Profile at a summer program at Harvard. He wants to use it in some business-related research. (I’ll provide more specifics on the topic later.) It should be a nice collaboration,...
by Linda Hoopes | Sep 7, 2010 | Organizational Change, Research
A recent article in Psychological Science suggests that people who tend to be depressive and get stuck in negative thoughts do better at tasks involving goal maintenance (stability) and worse on tasks involving goal-shifting (change). This is consistent with our...
by Linda Hoopes | Aug 10, 2010 | Research
I just ran across an interesting article in the journal Psychological Science, by Todd Kashdan and several co-authors. They focused on the fact that some people are able to describe the emotions they’re feeling in specific categories (sad, anxious, etc.) while...
