The Niagara Syndrome — Why Smart Teams Drift Into Crisis (Tony Robbins)
Nobody decides to go over the falls. You just stop steering. Tony Robbins has a name for it: the Niagara Syndrome. You put your life in the current. The water is warm, the river moves, and for a long while drifting feels like progress. Then the noise changes. You look up, and the falls are close — close enough that every stroke is panic now, not plan. A company drifts the same way. A team rarely chooses the bad outcome. It drifts toward one — a renewal nobody owned, a number nobody watched, a hire nobody made — and calls the drift "being busy." ...