as in laziness
an inclination not to do work or engage in activities
the inertia that grips so many of the club's members is the reason why nothing ever gets done
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Institutional inertia and other hurdles must not get in the way.
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Mekela Panditharatne and Shanze Hasan, TIME, 21 Oct. 2024
In order to make that investment, executives and users need to see a concrete payoff or existential risk that outweighs the powerful forces of inertia and fear of change.
—Ravi Kumar S, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
Organizations may encounter up to three key obstacles in adopting digital technologies for sales: knowledge gaps, perceived complexity and risk, and inertia.
—Prabhakant Sinha,
arun Shastri,
sally E. Lorimer, Harvard Business Review, 18 Sep. 2024
This brings us back to snow-globing your brain—which means doing something that shifts you from inertia to action.
—Anna Borges, SELF, 15 Aug. 2024
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Mekela Panditharatne and Shanze Hasan, TIME, 21 Oct. 2024
In order to make that investment, executives and users need to see a concrete payoff or existential risk that outweighs the powerful forces of inertia and fear of change.
—Ravi Kumar S, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
Organizations may encounter up to three key obstacles in adopting digital technologies for sales: knowledge gaps, perceived complexity and risk, and inertia.
—Prabhakant Sinha,
arun Shastri,
sally E. Lorimer, Harvard Business Review, 18 Sep. 2024
This brings us back to snow-globing your brain—which means doing something that shifts you from inertia to action.
—Anna Borges, SELF, 15 Aug. 2024
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“Inertia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inertia. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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