Team Cognitive Health playbook/Module 9 · Change & uncertainty

Day 81 / 100 · Change & uncertainty · Change fatigue

Too much change wears people out.

People can absorb a lot of change. What exhausts them is change that piles up, never finishes, or has no clear reason behind it.

Piled up

Too Much At Once

  • New tools, process and structure together
  • No time to adapt to one before the next

Never finished

Permanent Beta

  • Initiatives abandoned halfway
  • Old and new ways running side by side

No reason

Change For Its Own Sake

  • “Why are we doing this again?”
  • Effort without visible payoff

Sequence change. Finish before you start.

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