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EPISODE · Jun 24, 2025 · 7 MIN

Episode 38: The Corporate Bucket List Trap: Why Your Strategic Initiatives Are Just Procrastination in Disguise

from Making Business Personal · host Jason Weiss

What if your "innovative leadership" is actually corporate ADHD? Research reveals that 61% of executives fail within 18 months because they're drowning in shiny object syndrome—constantly chasing new initiatives while never completing transformational work. This episode exposes the hidden cost of strategic promiscuity and why completion beats initiation every time. You'll master three game-changing tools: identifying and killing zombie projects that consume resources without delivering results, implementing the 90-day focus rule that forces choices between competing priorities, and building a completion culture that celebrates execution over ideation. Learn why companies like IBM lost market dominance not from lack of innovation, but from innovating everywhere at once. Transform from a leader who starts everything to one who finishes what matters.

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