Slow structures, clogged decision pathways and habitual resistance can prevent organizations from moving at the speed of change.
Let’s talk about organizations that are clearly failures with the future — those who are stuck in a rut, and unable to figure out what to do next. With a twenty-five-year focus on innovation, I’ve become convinced that many organizations develop cultural sclerosis that holds them back to such a degree that their failure becomes a blinding liability. Yet failure is a funny thing — it can set you back, but it can also push you forward. You learn from failure - think about the context of the quote above. How do you separate productive failure from unproductive? Inertia, among other things. Go through this list. Inertia is easy: when confronted by change, many people react by … doing nothing. When things are uncomfortable, the easiest thing to do to deal with that discomfort is to avoid it. Such thinking causes many organizations and the people within them to fall asleep. They keep doing what they’ve been doing before, hoping that will carry them forward into the future…