Hey, it's Rachel Cook, your modern mentor. I'm the founder of Lead Above Noise, a firm helping

leaders get more from their teams with no burnout in sight. We do leader boot camps,

keynotes, and pulse checks to help build custom blueprints. Just let us know what you need.

Okay, so who's ready to chat about change? I can't believe how much of my work is focused on

change these days, because, you know, it's kind of pervasive and nonstop and exhausting. The thing that

hurts my heart the most, though, isn't how poorly companies are leading their teams through it,

you know, to burnout and mistrust and frustration

and poor implementation. No, what hurts the most is how simply they could be doing a really

great job of leading it. If only they had more clarity around why they're failing to lead

through change in the first place. Today, I want to talk about the five biggest failures that I'm seeing

happen time and again when companies are leading change, and what I would love to invite leaders

to do differently. Okay, here goes. The first is the failure to pull the thread. So can we

real talk about American football for a hot second? Because

here's the thing that happens in my house. So my husband is sitting on the couch watching a game,

like caring about what's happening. So I'll sit down next to him. And yet while we are

visually seeing the same thing, what we're each experiencing is night and day.

Like me, I see a hot mess.

Absolute chaos, a bunch of padded dudes running around, jumping on each other, throwing and kicking balls, like a full-out free-for-all.

To me, it looks kind of absurd. But the husband,

he sees strategy, tactics, a sequence of plays that form a cohesive strategy. And why? Because he

understands the game. He's learned it, and he sees how all the moving parts fit together

and build upon each other.

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