Resist that itch, says Cadbury Schweppes CEO
Veredus, a resourcing firm requotes Todd Stitzer, the CEO of Cadbury Schweppes, who is quoted in the Financial Times as saying:
“there is huge pressure to announce a change of strategy and to make promises about future results, and new leaders are often openly encouraged to criticise the past. Resist this…announce your strategy and plan only after intense reflection and analysis…�
We couldn't agree more.
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Recall Lu Gestner's first media address at IBM... where he resisted this itch, said he did not have a strategy for change yet, and risked being written off? The rest is history. It's all about the gigantic immobile elephant transforming itself into a lithe agile cat.
Posted by: anuradha | January 25, 2006 7:39 AM