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This week I\u2019m feeling kind of overwhelmed by the universe\u2019s content proliferation and also, to be honest, by the complexity of the models that are emerging from some really incredible and impressive research. (To be clear, I think that deep research is critical and should, if anything, be increased, not decreased.)<\/p>\n

The challenge is, those models might be the best explanations we\u2019ve ever had and they might be the most comprehensive. But they run into the buzzsaw at the point of implementation. A few weeks ago I tried an experiment on myself in which I attempted to engage nine new tactics to solve a complex problem over the course of a couple of weeks. (I picked a nine<\/span><\/a> tactic model because it seems to be that everything has nine<\/span><\/a> key elements). I screwed up all of them and it was a mess because I was trying to keep too much in my head at once.<\/p>\n

That doesn\u2019t mean that I couldn\u2019t have tried one of those things until I mastered it and moved on to the next. In fact, that\u2019s precisely what I might have done if I really wanted that approach to be the one <\/em>priority of my work. But what happens if I pick one part of every model I want to use to work on every day? Then I\u2019m right back where I started, trying to master the first step in nine models.<\/p>\n

So instead of trying to get to the perfect solution with lots of elements, we\u2019re going to work toward the 80% solution\u2014the one that gives the most lift for the least amount of intellectual and behavioral work. In this blog, we\u2019ll start by unpacking our Change Leadership Framework, and then we\u2019ll offer more short (~90 seconds to read), practical meditations on the behavioral insights that help make that framework work.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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