Resource Hurdles 

Resource Hurdles are the difficulties managers face implementing change with limited resources and time. Traditionally it is believed that the greater the shift in strategy, the greater the resources needed to execute it. Unfortunately, a company rarely has the resources it thinks it needs to achieve a sharp shift in strategy as is often required with Blue Ocean Strategy. Leaders that practice tipping point leadership, however, do not spend their time and energy obtaining more resources. Instead, they identify where the cold spots (activities that have high resource input but low performance impact) and hot spots (activities that have low resource input but high potential performance gains) are in their organization, and redistribute the company’s resources from cold spots to hot spots. Understanding that some units within the organization have excess resources while lacking other types of resources, they also engage in horse trading: they trade a given unit’s excess resources in one area for another unit’s excess resources to fill remaining resource gaps.