I’m going to geek out on baseball stuff here, but hear me out (there’s a lesson for coaches).
Last week, the Toronto Blue Jays cut high-paid, former All-Star shortstop Troy Tulowitzki loose from the team.
Although he was one of the best players in baseball before he went to Toronto, he was often hurt after he got there, and he didn’t do much for them.
The Blue Jays are in rebuild-mode now and giving opportunities to young players in the hopes they turn into a contender down the road.
Management messed up though, because they should have started the rebuild process a few years ago.
Back then, they had players with trade value and could have gotten some good, younger building blocks in return.
They didn’t do that, and they wasted two years stinking it up on the field while their players got older (and less valuable).
This season, their best player (Josh Donaldson) got hurt and saw his trade value plummet faster than Bitcoin.
They ended up trading him to Cleveland for a bag of baseballs.
Had they pulled the trigger earlier, they would have done a lot better.
My point is that timing is everything in baseball, and in business.
If you know that you need to make changes, you can’t hesitate – or it’ll hurt you like it hurt the Blue Jays.
Moves that you make this month will pay off in 2019.
Wait until this time next year to do anything, and the results won’t be seen until 2020.
There’s nothing wrong with changing things up.
As Einstein said, ““The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results”.
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