“POSTPONE “EXTRA” CHANGES Even after you’ve clustered the changes under a few headings, you’ll find that you have too many of them to manage effectively. You simply have to cut out some of them. Now, you can’t keep the external world or other parts of your organization from affecting your part of the business, but you can often postpone or sometimes cancel incidental changes that are unrelated to the larger shift you have to deal with. The gains from those incidental changes are seldom large enough to compensate for their disruptive effects, and a crucial large change can be jeopardized when smaller changes are thoughtlessly piggy-backed on top of it.”