š Leader's Dispatch: What Is Resistance Actually Telling You?
Leader's Dispatch Volume 24 (Part 3 of 6 Part Series)
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The Weight of the First Step
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ā Leaderās Dispatch
The Weight of the First Step
Part 3 of 6 (Paid Subscribers Only)
Resistance Comes From Unexpected Places
Systems defend themselves.
The second step should be easier.
The path has already been crossed once. The snow is packed now. Footprints exist. The terrain has been tested.
And yet, as weight shifts forward again, something pushes back.
Not a shove.
Not a storm.
Just enough resistance to make balance harder than expected.
This is often where leaders stop and look around for the source of the trouble. Someone must be objecting. Someone must be unhappy. Something must have gone wrong.
Usually, no one is.
ChatGPT 5.2 Prompt:
Help me identify a recent leadership initiative where the first step felt decisive but the second step encountered unexpected friction. Ask me questions that surface what changed between those two moments, without assuming the initiative was wrong.
When Forward Motion Gets Harder, Not Easier
Most leaders expect resistance to show up clearly.
They expect disagreement. Pushback. Raised voices. Visible refusal. Someone saying no, or at least slowing things down in a way that can be named.
Instead, what they encounter looks more mundane.
Requests for additional review.
Sudden attention to process.
Questions about timing, scope, or readiness.
Concern for rules that were flexible yesterday.
Nothing overtly hostile. Nothing dramatic enough to confront directly.
Just friction.
And that friction feels confusing precisely because it arrives after clarity, not before it.
āIf insight was the hard part, why does moving forward suddenly require more effort?ā
ChatGPT 5.2 Prompt:
