Jill's Reflections
I used to think I was the exception.
I believed in developing people. I cared about my team. I wanted to see people grow.
But when push came to shove — budget pressures, competing priorities, the relentless pace of operations — leadership development was the first thing I quietly moved to the back burner. I told myself we'd get to it when things slowed down.
They never slowed down.
And I'm not alone in this. After years of working inside food companies and now alongside t...
We recently worked with a food company pushing new products to market. The work was intense, but that wasn’t the issue. What was killing momentum? No one was clear on who owned what.
People were double-working, making assumptions, stepping on toes. Some team members shut down. Others burned out. Not because they weren’t capable—but because expectations were blurry, priorities kept shifting, and the system couldn’t support the speed of the strategy.
Even more telling? Three-quarters of the team...
