The January issues of the Harvard Business Review uncovers six mistakes that can derail your company’s attempts to change. Let’s look at one: Initiative Gridlock. Writer Robert Miles suggests that ”Executive leaders may lack the insight and courage to discard efforts that have come up short.” If they admit they’ve chosen the wrong path, they’ll lose their ability to motivate their team to try others things. ”So instead, they pile new initiatives on top of the ones that are struggling–and the result is gridlock.” As a leader, have there been times when you’ve tried to put too much into the initiative pipeline? What were the results?
January 2010
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Blogs will be heralding the New Year these coming weeks. As columnist Ellen Goodman wrote, “January is named for the Roman god of beginnings and endings. He looked forward and backward at the same time.”
We’ve got a few thoughts about endings. An AP release today wrote about protecting the Queen’s English. Looks like these terms are out and should be ended as soon as possible: “Shovel ready”, “tweet”, “Czars” “Transparent/transparency”, “teachable moment’, “app”, “too big to fail”—the list goes on. Do you have any tired business terms that should be headed for the semantic scrap heap in 2010?