Selected Writing / Business strategy & execution

Lost Momentum - Business World's Good Intentions

Skip Middleton · Originally published on LinkedIn ·

The subject

A personal essay on why promising partnerships lose momentum: slipping commitments, missed timelines, and assumptions that go unexamined. Its focus is the work between agreeing on an idea and carrying it through.

Publication context

An early piece of operating commentary, retained for its practical discussion of commitment and follow-through. The examples and language belong to the original 2016 essay.

Original publication: Lost Momentum - Business World's Good Intentions, LinkedIn, October 18, 2016. The date identifies the original article; this reading note does not republish or update its full text.

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