The overlooked power of day-to-day dynamism
Summary
PwC research shows that starting and stopping smaller projects contribute at least as much to performance as making big, business-level decisions and deals.
Every day, executives, managers, and individual contributors make decisions about where and where not to allocate resources, including money, people, and time. Sometimes it’s as simple as agreeing on next steps at the end of a meeting, which can lead to further exploration and time investment, or to continuing an ongoing initiative. On other occasions, it’s a decision to stop a project. Fewer and farther between are major decisions to double down on a new business, to divest an underperforming one, or to make an acquisition