Stop Initiative Overload
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HBR IdeaCast
The other thing is that if you think about it, year after year, a department or a function wants to do something better; they want to launch something; so they start something new this year, something else next year and the following year and large departments might launch many initiatives and that happens over an entire organization. SARAH GREEN CARMICHAEL: So usually when projects don’t die or stay dead, leaders get blamed by employees and employees who feel kind of disgruntled and kind of like, “Ugh, like, you know, management never kills any these projects,” but I know that from talking to leaders, leaders feel like employees won’t stop doing the work.