{
  "title": "In Lugano, is knowing when to stop a project a leadership skill?",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/leadership-excellence-lugano-savoir-arreter-un-projet-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2025-06-17",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "Persistence is a managerial strength until it starts protecting a decision rather than the business. Research helps distinguish these situations without offering an automatic rule for abandoning projects.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Executive Leadership",
  "place": {
    "name": "Lugano",
    "region": "Tessin",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "Barry Staw (1976, Organizational Behavior and Human Performance) demonstrated experimentally that responsibility for an initial decision can encourage further resource commitments when outcomes become unfavourable."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The weight of costs already incurred",
      "point": "Hal Arkes and Catherine Blumer (1985, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes) show that past investments of money, effort or time can influence the decision to continue an activity."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The premature conclusion",
      "point": "One might conclude that good leaders quickly abandon disappointing projects."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What these findings cannot decide",
      "point": "These studies provide neither a universal stopping threshold nor an estimate directly transferable to businesses in Lugano."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Lugano",
      "point": "As an application exercise within the programme, a team could spend four weeks reviewing every decision to provide additional funding to a struggling project: a banking tool, a fashion collection, a trading transaction or an investment by an Italian-speaking family SME."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Staw",
      "year": "1976",
      "source": "Organizational Behavior and Human Performance"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Blumer",
      "year": "1985",
      "source": "Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes"
    }
  ],
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  "citationPolicy": "Citation autorisée avec mention « SHR — Swiss Human Resources » et lien vers l'article."
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