Bulldozer00's Blog

I always get a kick out of how people express great surprise when a management shakeup occurs and the old guard is sacked for the not-so-old guard. “OMG! I can’t believe so-and-so is gone“. “It’s about time so-and-so got booted“. “Why the hell is so-and-so still here?“. “Why am I still here?“.

Well geeze, the reason a change was made was because it finally became unavoidably obvious that something wasn’t working the way it should to somebody who had the power to make the change. Nonetheless, changing a leadership team in response to an existential crisis doesn’t guarantee squat. At best, the new team will propel the org out of the crisis and place it on a trajectory of success. At worst, the org’s demise will be accelerated.