Week 51 Day 2: The Project You Should Have Killed Sooner

Every leader has at least one project they kept alive too long. The signs of failure were visible early -- the milestones kept slipping, the team's energy was declining, the original business case had...

Every leader has at least one project they kept alive too long. The signs of failure were visible early -- the milestones kept slipping, the team's energy was declining, the original business case had eroded -- but you kept going because killing the project felt like admitting you were wrong. The cost of continuing was larger than the cost of stopping, but the cost of stopping was more visible.