July 11, 2006, 10:14 am
Rethink Your Instincts
by Henry Woodbury
Filed under: Business
Experienced managers, and technologists trust their instincts. While this helps them make quick decisions in rapidly changing environments, it can also blind them to new ideas. When businesses try to change, the problem is magnified:
Business instincts are never more likely to get in the way than when established and successful organizations launch high-risk, high growth-potential new ventures
Instincts are rooted in the success stories in your own past. What happens when an entire organization shares the same success history? Instincts become almost unbreakable. Through every conversation, every meeting, and every major decision, shared instincts are reinforced….
It is one thing to state a new direction, quite another to actually break momentum.
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