Ah, the optimism. The grand vision. The leadership roadshow complete with slick PowerPoints and just enough buzzwords to make it sound like this time, things will be different.

“We’re transforming the way we work!”

“This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity!”

“Things can only get better!”

Really?

Because once the applause dies down and the executive Q&A wraps up, reality sets in: No owner. No roadmap. No actual plan. Just a lot of blind faith and a vague hope that “momentum” will somehow carry this thing forward.

Six months later, the landscape is bleak:

• Some teams have made an educated guess and started changing things.
• Others assume it was quietly abandoned like last year’s employee engagement survey.
• A department in Singapore is still waiting on a follow-up email that never came.

Then one brave soul dares to ask: “Hey… are we still doing that thing?”

Cue the awkward mumbling. The tight smile. The vague reference to ‘shifting priorities.’ And just like that, the change initiative vanishes into the corporate void. The next Big Idea has already taken its place.

And the teams left behind? Still confused. Still waiting. Still frustrated.

Welcome to The Friday Confessional. If you know, you know.