{
  "title": "In Zurich, is knowing when to stop a project a leadership skill?",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/leadership-zurich-savoir-arreter-un-projet-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2025-07-09",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "Persistence is readily seen as a leadership virtue. Research on escalation of commitment shows why that virtue needs safeguards.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Executive Leadership",
  "place": {
    "name": "Zurich",
    "region": "Zurich",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "Barry M."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A mechanism beyond individual stubbornness",
      "point": "Dustin E."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The premature conclusion",
      "point": "One might conclude that good leaders quickly abandon disappointing projects."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What the evidence cannot settle",
      "point": "A resource-allocation experiment does not reproduce every constraint of a real portfolio, and a meta-analysis does not provide a universal threshold for abandonment."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Zurich",
      "point": "An exercise proposed for “Leadership d'excellence” is to record an observable reassessment trigger, a deadline and the evidence that would justify continuation before the next funding review of a Zurich project."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Staw",
      "year": "1976",
      "source": "Organizational Behavior and Human Performance"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Miles",
      "year": "2012",
      "source": "Academy of Management Journal"
    }
  ],
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  "relatedPages": {
    "programme": "https://www.shr.swiss/formation-leadership-excellence-zurich",
    "city": "https://www.shr.swiss/formations-ville/zurich",
    "blog": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog"
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  "citationPolicy": "Citation autorisée avec mention « SHR — Swiss Human Resources » et lien vers l'article."
}