Founders Say Yes. Teams Resist Change. Growth Waits. (Travis Hahler) | 386

Think Mastery with Dr. Yishai · Oct 20, 2026 · 34m

Someone wants two days of your time. It's the kind of thing you'd love to do.

And saying no feels like shutting a door that might matter.

So you say yes.

Then the cost shows up. It comes out of the hours you'd saved for building. And you pause.

Your team does it too. They say yes to your face. Then the change costs them something they're good at. Six months in, hardly anything's moved.

Travis Hahler wrote a book about that pause. It's called Rethink Resistance. He's led change at Google and Salesforce. And since the book came out, the asks keep landing on him too.

Most of us live in the space…