Define: "Over-rotate" in Business
Multi-headcount capital waste
"Wait a month before learning the new protocol. They will usually abandon it and quietly revert to the old way."
An excessive or disproportionate strategic pivotPivotManagement realized the original plan was terrible and is now pretending this was the idea all along. in response to a minor challenge or market shift.
What does "Over-rotate" actually mean?
"Panicking over one minor glitch and forcing the entire department to adopt a convoluted new process that ruins everyone's day."
"We need to address the latency issue, but let's be careful not to over-rotate on our hardware spend."
"Management over-rotated after one phishing email and now we have to authenticate with three different devices just to check Slack."
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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