HBR Guides to Building Your Strategic Skills Collection (3 Books)

CHAPTER 2

How to Keep Support for Your Project from Evaporating

by Allison Rimm

Even years later, I still consider it my biggest professional failure: A companywide employee training program that I’d developed and put through several rounds of vetting was shot down at the last minute. It was a painful surprise, and it changed the way I’ve sought support for new initiatives ever since.

As hospitals increasingly migrate their medical records from paper files to digital media, their employees face the challenge of making the information readily accessible to providers while adequately protecting patients’ privacy. At my hospital, I was a senior vice president with a long track record of establishing successful programs, and I had oversight responsibility ...