Consider the following stalls we have identified. In each, people thought or behaved in a certain way that impeded progress and were often reluctant to change. We will be expanding these and hope you will help us with this.
Tradition Stall: We as humans are so accustomed to behaving in a certain way, that it is difficult for us to change our behavior, even when a change could be beneficial to us.
Psychology of Disbelief Stall: Similar to a tradition stall, a psychology of disbelief stall has to do with adhering to the known. We are conditioned to believe in a right way of doing things, and are hesitant to try to accept or understand challenging viewpoints.
Trade Secrecy Stall: Trade secrecy stalls are becoming increasing hindrances to progress that will benefit humanity. Competition makes people afraid to collaborate and share ideas with each other for fear of having their ideas stolen.
Time-Lapse Stall: Sometimes there is an unnecessary lag in the amount of time it takes for an idea or concept to be invented and the point at which it is implemented.
You Can't Take it With You Stall: People have been bogged down over the idea that they had to bring existing resources with them to solve new problems.
Bureaucratic Stall: Bureaucrats often stall efforts by in-boxing them to death. An idea that could be executed in a few minutes of direct attention, will take on a bureaucratic life of its own if put on the in-box highway. Studies show that issues put on this bureaucratic byway usually dawdle for x months.
Misconception Stall: Perceptions are sometimes so far off that you don't realize what you're really finding and may even mistakenly call it what you're looking for.
Frankenstein Stall: Sometimes we're too bogged down over making something the best before we can use it. However, the best is often the simplest and sometimes the crudest.
Can't Have Your Cake and Eat it Too Stall: People often assume that the best way to settle a dispute is by compromising. Compromising means that disputants must give up something in order to reach an agreement. Each gets only part of what they want. Actually, there are times when all parties could have gotten exactly what they wanted and a lot faster if only they had better communicated with each other. Sometimes you really can have your cake and eat it too.
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