Small change: slow down to speed up

Almost every organisation overestimates what it can change in a month, and underestimates what it can change in a year.

The result? Budgets blown. Promises broken. And people on the verge of exhaustion.

Don’t be the leader who writes a strategic cheque that reality can’t cash. Instead, acknowledge the reality that sustainable change takes time, and help your organisation embrace this fact.

After all, your business might not enjoy the length of time that meaningful change takes. But it will really not enjoy spending far longer cleaning up the mess that poor planning leaves in its wake.

Something to consider: How can I avoid the tendency that January creates for people to feel they need to do everything, everywhere, all at once?

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