Wed 13 Jan 2010
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?
