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Authors of Move Fast and Fix Things tell judiciary leaders to speed reforms without sacrificing deliberation
Summary
On the Federal Judicial Center podcast In Session: Leading the Judiciary, Frances Frei and Anne Morris outlined a five-step approach—identify pain points, rebuild trust, diversify perspectives, craft a compelling story and then accelerate—that they say lets courts act faster while preserving due deliberation.
Frances Frei, a professor at Harvard Business School, and Anne Morris, founder and executive director of the Leadership Consortium, told Judge Kathy Surratt-States on the Federal Judicial Center's In Session: Leading the Judiciary podcast that courts can increase the pace of organizational change without abandoning their deliberative norms. The authors, discussing their book Move Fast and Fix Things, urged leaders to begin by identifying the problems that cause the most pain to people the institution serves and to solve those first.
Why start with the most painful problems? Frei and Morris said it focuses limited authority and attention where change will be felt most. "Whoever is in most amount of pain, that's where we want to start," the hosts opened; the guests argued that solving those problems builds momentum and…
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