People go through the motions without real buy-in. They're skeptical, holding back effort and ideas because they don't believe leadership will follow through.
Hesitation, over-analysis, and risk avoidance. People protect themselves from the perceived threat of failure, judgment, or loss of relevance.
Your strongest people resist most. Change threatens who they are: their competence, their value, their belonging. "If this is the future, where do I fit?"
Exhaustion. Apathy. "Not another initiative." People who used to be engaged are now checked out, too much, too fast, for too long.
Quiet resistance from talented people whose values or vision don't match where the organization is heading. They comply, but they don't commit.
Unacknowledged loss of role, status, control, "the way things were." It goes underground and surfaces as resistance, reactivity, or sabotage.
"We've tried that before." Past failures create a belief that nothing will change. Cynicism poisons culture and kills new initiatives before they start.
Change is being done to people, not with them. They comply mechanically but never take ownership because they had no voice in the how.