hen consulting, I strongly support retrospective meetings, the idea that employees need to reflect on work and their interactions with others regularly. We know that people can process only a limited number of concurrent changes every day. Go above it, and they will feel overloaded, and they will resist.
If we try to implement this practice in highly changing environments, teams will need to reflect more frequently on what is happening, and at some point, they will tire. They will give up or follow procedures without any desire to improve them. These not-so-positive effects are heightened in an environment of exponential change, so broadly used practices have to be reevaluated to avoid counterproductive effects when exposed to exponentiality.
At Enterprise Agility University, we have been working to understand the best ways to address these situations and provide global leaders with enterprise agility models for leading exponential change. A large part of this work involves an advanced understanding of the brain.