Chapter 6Step Six: Partitioning the Project and Building Momentum with Early Wins
Far-reaching change initiatives can be hard for people to visualize, particularly if the gap between here and there, between the present and the future seems extraordinarily large. Change itself is hard enough, but a change that seems abstract and far in the future is even more difficult to grasp. Leading breakthrough change often means working toward an end that seems distant and out of focus. As we saw in earlier steps of the Stacking the Deck process, if your people can't visualize the future in real terms, they'll find it difficult to muster the urgency to undertake the journey.
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