As part of my work in communicating change inside large organizations, I write and design executive presentations. Typically, I’ll get an outline or draft deck riddled with charts, graphs, acronyms and business jargon. I have to admit the content isn’t very motivating. Sometimes, it’s downright depressing.

What we have found in our work helping large global organizations adapt and respond more effectively to change is that there are three things that can help you increase the odds of success.

Attention may very well be the scarcest resource inside large companies today. So let’s stop wasting it. Here are two things you can do.

These siren songs all get their power from what I call the Myth of Repeatability. Success in anything can be achieved merely by following a recipe. Just check the airport bookstores to see what three things you can do to make you or your company more innovative, more disruptive, more powerful or more competitive in the time United gives you when they delay your next flight. Simple.

I am all for a breakthrough in conventional management, but I’m not sure this is it. My biggest critique of Holacracy is that it’s entirely inward-focused. It takes the energy of the workforce and directs it toward constantly evolving internal roles and painfully detailed processes. It’s incredibly complicated.