Rose Hollister and Michael Watkins, consultants at Genesis Advisers, argue that many companies today are taking on too many initiatives. Each manager might have their own pet projects they want to focus on, but that trickles down to lower level workers dealing with more projects at a time that they can handle, or do well. […]
Innovation, according to the economist Joseph Schumpeter, is all about “creative destruction.” He was referring to the process through which new innovations (the creative part) displace established ways of doing things (the destruction part) and his work helped lay the foundation for the now-common idea of disruptive innovation. However, there is another way in which destruction […]
In their Harvard Business Review article, “Too Many Projects,” Genesis Co-Founder, Michael Watkins, and Genesis Leadership Consultant, Rose Hollister, outline the causes and consequences of initiative overload, an increasingly common phenomenon in organizations where resources are not aligned with strategy. Watch this brief video in which Michael Watkins shares the research and thinking behind the article and provides guidance […]
