Ten thousand watched the hype. Five hundred watched the explainer.
I backed my own stock picks and lost 74%. The signal I ignored is the same one most change programs ignore, and it costs them far more than it cost me.
The manager who refuses to fake it is half right
The manager who says "I'm not a hugger" has forty years of research on their side. It runs out sooner than they'd like.
The most confident voice in your change programme is rarely the best informed
The surest person in the room is often the least calibrated. The Dunning-Kruger effect at the executive table, and the quiet experts who are your best early warning system.
Most of your change programme will be forgotten. Two moments won’t.
Ninety per cent of a change programme gets forgotten. Two moments don’t. The Peak End Rule decides which version of your transformation your people actually carry.
Your change framework was probably built on American college students
96% of psychology research came from 12% of humanity, mostly American college students. Then your change framework borrowed it. A three-question stress test before you commit to the next methodology.