Traction Heroes Pruning
Sep 21, 2025
Delve into the art of letting go and embracing change. Discover how timely endings can foster reinvention through insightful readings. Explore the psychological traps of inertia and identity that prevent progress. Learn to assess mental models for effective decision-making. It's a thought-provoking look at pruning life's excess for personal and organizational growth.
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Inertia Keeps Organizations Adding Noise
- Organizations and leaders often lack the ability to stop adding initiatives, creating runaway complexity.
- Harry Max observes this inertia causes outcomes to diverge from intended goals.
Book Passage Sparked Clarity
- Harry found a line in What Would Harry Do? that crystallized his thinking about endings and reinvention.
- He connects that passage to Henry Cloud's Necessary Endings and its relevance to prioritization.
Sunk Costs Prevent Necessary Endings
- Sunk cost and emotional investment make stopping very hard even when a path no longer serves you.
- This resistance undermines innovation, prioritization, and resource allocation.
