When You Feel Stuck at Work
Instead of trying to change how you feel when you think you're just spinning your wheels at work, you may want to change how you're working. In a recent interview, Timothy Butler, author of Getting Unstuck: How Dead Ends Become New Paths, had this to say.
Most executives are required to predict what will be happening to the business not just the next month, but the next year (and year after that). Planning is a part of the job, and so is change. In some cases, leaders make the mistake of pushing along a plan that no longer addresses the situation. According to Butler, however, "But often what a clear impasse signifies is that you need to stop and realize that your model does not capture the reality of your business right now and the reality of your position within your organization.""We all experience impasse, and we will experience impasse many times in our lives. Why? One of the things I describe in the book is the fact that impasse is developmentally necessary. The meaning of an impasse, although it's usually first expressed as a failure or in an internalized notion of inadequacy, is a request for us to change our way of thinking about ourselves and our place in the world."