The CEO Refresher

At what point should a CEO change the implementation of a business initiative? Change too early, and you risk team dissension. Change too late, and you risk confirming Einstein’s definition of insanity, i.e., doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

As a leader you may have decided you don’t have time to pause your organizational change efforts. There’s too much to do. We need to keep going. This is a mistake. I advocate change leaders “take a pause for the cause.”

Are you feeling the pressure of so much to do and so little time? What do you do when you feel this type of pressure? Do you set more goals, and initiate more changes in effort to get more things done? Ironically the more changes you initiate the less change occurs in their organization. There […]