Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Afraid to Simplify


While most managers complain about being overloaded with responsibilities, very few are willing to give up any of them. It's one of the great contradictions of organizational life: People are great at starting new things — projects, meetings, initiatives, task forces — but have a much harder time stopping the ones that already exist.

Read the rest of Ron Ashkenas at Harvard Business Review.

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