The resulting dynamic equilibrium stalls the effort in what looks like resistance but is in fact a kind of personal immunity to change. Instead, even as they hold a sincere commitment to change, many people are unwittingly applying productive energy toward a hidden competing commitment.
Resistance to change does not reflect opposition, nor is it merely a result of inertia. What’s going on? As organizational psychologists, we have seen this dynamic literally hundreds of times, and our research and analysis have recently led us to a surprising yet deceptively simple conclusion. An employee has the skills and smarts to make a change with ease, has shown a deep commitment to the company, genuinely supports the change-and yet, inexplicably, does nothing. In other cases, such resistance is far more puzzling. Sometimes it’s easy to see why-the employee fears a shift in power, the need to learn new skills, the stress of having to join a new team. Henry Louis Gates (2019).ĭana Reason currently lives in Oregon, USA, where she holds the position of Assistant Professor of Contemporary Music, School of Arts and Communication, at Oregon State University.Every manager is familiar with the employee who just won’t change. In addition, for work with Paul Miller, Reason was credited as arranger for the PBS Documentary series: Reconstruction: America After the Civil War by Dr. Birth of a Movement was nominated for an Emmy in 2018.
Tea and Fences was also performed on the Heart of a Forest tour in 2016, by Paul Miller (aka DJ Spooky) and appears on additional soundtracks including, Within Our Gates and Body, Soul on Pioneers of African-American Cinema (Kino-2016) and the PBS documentary soundtrack – Birth of a Movement (2017). Her conceptual, social and political work: Tea & Fences: A Quiet Tea Party (2017) premiered at the Santa Monica library as part of a new collection of works: Propositional Attitudes (Golden Spike Press, 2018), edited by performance and visual artists: John Burtle and Elana Mann.
Her sound-art sculpture, UnHeard, premiered at CEI Artworks in 2016. Her piece Folded Subjects: Olive Rose premiered at McGill University in 2017. She created the original film score for: Back to God’s Country (1919) featuring Nell Shipman for Kino Lorber Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers. She has been featured on more than 17 commercially released recordings, including as a member of The Space Between Trio with American electronic arts pioneer, Pauline Oliveros.Īs a film composer, performer and arranger, Reason has created music for a variety of genres including: film, theatre, games and large and small ensembles. Her focus is on performance, improvisation, composition, scoring, and research in new and emergent musical fields.Īs a performing artist working at the intersections of twentieth and twenty-first century musical genres and intermedia practices, she moves easily between genres encompassing a dynamic stylistic range and repertoire. Dana Reason is a composer, improvisor, keyboardist, sound artist, producer and researcher, with a PhD in Critical Studies and Experimental Practices from the University of California, San Diego.
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