What 30 Years Taught Me About Pacing Change.
Discover why successful transformation depends on organizational absorption, not speed, and how boards can pace change for lasting business results. For three decades, I have watched organizations spend billions trying to move faster. The irony is that many failed because they tried to change too much, too quickly. The conventional wisdom says speed wins. Move fast, transform aggressively, compress timelines, announce bold ambitions, and push the organization to keep up. Experience has taught me something different. Organizations rarely fail because they move too slowly. They fail because they change faster than the organization can absorb. There is an important distinction between the pace of execution and the pace of organizational absorption. High-performing companies understand it. Struggling transformations ignore it. I remember working with a global manufacturer operating across four continents. The board approved one of the largest technology investments in the company's his...
