> How many people are willing to spend thousands on an exercise bike?
A lot, myself included. My wife and I gave it to each other for Christmas one year, right before our daughter was born.
At the time when we were new parents, it was perfect. We could exercise quietly without waking either the baby or each other, all without leaving the house.
Now that our daughter is older, we still use it albeit more infrequently in the summer when we both like to go out and run. However, the digital classes offered in the app are great for running & training. For me personally, it was easy to get stuck in a rut of just plodding along and not really improving my fitness. Having the coaches in your ear telling you what to do works well for me.
The article is clearly targeted at managers and leaders, not your average individual contributor.
Often new leaders & managers start in an established team and want to change something to "make their mark" or have an impact as soon as possible, often with disastrous results (because they don't yet have the context to make informed decisions).
The advice is to spend time with your team to learn the ropes, figure out the internal politics, hear the common pain points and _then_ start addressing things, hopefully with some quick wins (like canceling a wasteful meeting or appropriating a larger conference room) that due to organizational inertia, went unaddressed.
[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/03/us/mckinsey-ICE-immigrati...