Erika Andersen

Founding Partner, Proteus · 1 appearance on the record.

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Erika Andersen is a founding partner of Proteus and a leadership consultant. She advises senior executives on organizational change and strategy, and has authored several books on leadership and personal growth.

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Andersen: People Instinctively View Change as Difficult, Costly, and Weird

“Cause one of the things that we found out in our research about change is that most people want to change comes at them. They see it negatively. They see it as dangerous. So our, Opening mindset about change is usually that the change is going to be difficult …”

Erika Andersen May 10, 2022 ▶ 5:10 Why "Difficult, Costly, and Weird" Is Wired Into Your Brain

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Andersen: Adaptable People Reframe Change as Doable, Rewarding, and Normal

“So what we've learned over the years is that people who are good at change, they're able to change the way they think about change. So that rather than seeing a change initially as difficult, costly, and weird, they immediately started thinking about how it co…”

Erika Andersen May 10, 2022 ▶ 5:49 Why "Difficult, Costly, and Weird" Is Wired Into Your Brain

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Andersen: Leaders process change for months but expect instant employee adaptation.

“Cause lots of times what happens is leaders, they find out about a change. They think about it for weeks or months. They go through their own arc where they come to see it as doable, rewarding, normal, and then they turn to their folks. And explain the change …”

Erika Andersen May 10, 2022 ▶ 23:58 Why "Difficult, Costly, and Weird" Is Wired Into Your Brain

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Andersen: Leaders must tell employees what is not changing during transitions

“The second change lever is clarify and reinforce priorities because lots of times when one thing is changing, people assume that everything is changing. So it's really helpful to them to hear what's not changing.”

Erika Andersen May 10, 2022 ▶ 25:26 Why "Difficult, Costly, and Weird" Is Wired Into Your Brain

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Andersen: Rapid organizational change requires more collaboration, not unilateral action

“So it's even more important to stay in touch and be collaborative when you're trying to change quickly. And it's counterintuitive because when you're trying to change quickly, most of our impulse is just to go and just do it and not tell anybody, right? So it'…”

Erika Andersen May 10, 2022 ▶ 33:28 Why "Difficult, Costly, and Weird" Is Wired Into Your Brain

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Andersen: People instinctively ask three specific questions when facing change

“So what we found as we did this research is when a change comes at us, Almost without exception, we want to know three things. We want to know, what does this mean for me? What am I personally going to have to do differently? That's thing one. Thing two is, wh…”

Erika Andersen May 10, 2022 ▶ 14:30 Why "Difficult, Costly, and Weird" Is Wired Into Your Brain

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
Why "Difficult, Costly, and Weird" Is Wired Into Your Brain	May 10, 2022	22m

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