change-averse

"We've allowed her to come out of the circle in a way that I think gives us the freedom and flexibility to think beyond coffee," he says, before quickly assuring any change-averse viewers that Starbucks is and always will be a coffee company.

Ty Fujimura: Behind the New Starbucks Logo, a Siren's Trick Ty Fujimura 2011

"We've allowed her to come out of the circle in a way that I think gives us the freedom and flexibility to think beyond coffee," he says, before quickly assuring any change-averse viewers that Starbucks is and always will be a coffee company.

Ty Fujimura: Behind the New Starbucks Logo, a Siren's Trick Ty Fujimura 2011

She has come to adopt the party-line view of the most change-averse elements of the teachers' unions: There is no education crisis.

John Merrow: David Brooks, Diane Ravitch and the Education Wars John Merrow 2011

Mr. Michaels said his chief regret is he moved too quickly to implement changes while the company was in flux and rumors about management were swirling, causing an already change-averse culture to "wait things out."

Michaels Weighs Comeback Plans Russell Adams 2010

The major lesson, I think, is that even the most change-averse among us can flourish outside of our comfort zones.

A Terribly Brilliant Year Candid Engineer 2009

"We've allowed her to come out of the circle in a way that I think gives us the freedom and flexibility to think beyond coffee," he says, before quickly assuring any change-averse viewers that Starbucks is and always will be a coffee company.

Ty Fujimura: Behind the New Starbucks Logo, a Siren's Trick Ty Fujimura 2011

She has come to adopt the party-line view of the most change-averse elements of the teachers' unions: There is no education crisis.

John Merrow: David Brooks, Diane Ravitch and the Education Wars John Merrow 2011

An intriguing question, and one that might worry some change-averse Japanese executives, is whether those foreign investors will bring with them more insistent demands for improved corporate governance at companies often not held accountable by easy-going domestic investors.

Selling Trade to Japan Joseph Sternberg 2011

That said, I'll concede that the committed audience of the Big Three magazines are fundamentally conservative, but I'm not convinced that the average online SF/F fan is so change-averse.

The Solution to Saving the Short Fiction Genre Magazines is... 2008

And new hires will by definition be people who are conservative and change-averse, as the people who want to swing for the fences and get rewarded for creating something new will go somewhere else, where they will receive stock options — in typically greater volume than anyone will ever grant restricted stock — and have greater upside.

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