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Resetting is normal. Recovery is rare. The difference is how early you call it.
Most programs that miss a date did not fail in the month they missed it. They failed in the quarter somebody decided not to say so yet. That is the pattern I get hired into, and it is the one the research below keeps finding from the outside.
Source material I argue with
Published by other people, linked to the original. I do not agree with all of it. Where I disagree is usually the part worth talking about.
When Senior Leaders Lack People Skills, Transformations Fail
A chief transformation officer's engagement scores dropped 40% in six weeks, and no one at the executive table saw it coming. Jenny Fernandez on why people skills are the hidden driver of transformation success.
The Power of Priorities: Why Less Is More in a Transformation
BCG's argument is that most of a transformation's value sits in a small share of its initiatives: roughly 80% of the value in 20% of the work. The hard part is not identifying them. It is cutting the rest.
Start with your own program
The questions I ask in the first ten days of a stalled program. Eight of them, two minutes, and you see your score before I ask you for anything.
Assess your programSeeing this in your own program?
The research describes the pattern. A conversation tells you whether you're in it, and what to do next.
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