White blood cells swarming change
Transformation is hard and people only tend to do it when a situation is untenable. You have to be willing to break things when you transform and it is often hard to stand up to the scrutiny of doing it prior to some major problem.
A retired executive and I were talking the other day. I told them about two places that rolled back their transformation efforts after a regime change where the transformation champions left or were reorganized out of that role. The exec said that we were in the phase where seeing:
"The white blood cells were swarming the transformation infection to eradicate it."
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