I took this picture while walking through a local park. What caught my attention wasn’t simply the old piece of equipment that had been left behind. It was the tree growing around it. Whatever purpose that equipment once served, it had clearly been there for a very long time. The environment changed, the tree continued…
Most workarounds begin with good intentions. Something isn’t working the way it should, but the business still needs to move forward. A leader steps in. An extra approval gets added. A team creates a temporary process. Someone takes ownership of a problem that was never supposed to belong to them. In the moment, those decisions are…
If I had to summarize how most organizations become harder to lead, it would be in five words: It made sense at the time. Almost nothing that creates unnecessary drag inside an organization starts out as a bad idea. A customer needs an exception, so the team creates one. A leader steps in because it’s…