Here are three things to say when your goal is to stifle creativity and bring any conversation about change to a screeching halt.
- “That {problem / issue / challenge} will always be present.”
- “You’ll never {gain consensus / get the support necessary} to change that…”
- “It is what it is.”
There are scores of variations on the theme. But the thesis is the same: discussion is pointless — things will never change / improve — the dye is case.
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