Kelli and Nolan tackle a listener's frustration with a painfully slow reorg process, diving into the eternal tension between perfect planning and actually running the business. When HR and legal reviews stretch into week four, should you keep waiting for perfection or pull the trigger? Towards the end of the episode, Kelli and Nolan get into brass tacks offering tactical timelines to execute a reorg based on hypothetical examples.

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro

(00:19) The Reorg Dilemma

(00:56) Challenges in Big Companies

(03:00) Balancing Perfection and Speed

(04:43) HR & Legal Risk

(08:55) Sponsor: Metaview

(10:49) Employment Lawyers’ Limitations

(12:33) Intellectual Trap

(13:28) Workshopping Different Scenarios

(15:23) Wrap

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