Early in your career, you see how others do things, and you adopt through emulation. Like baby ducks, we imprint from those we see around us. It’s o

Seven unchallenged assumptions stunting your company's growth

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2024-04-01 21:00:10

Early in your career, you see how others do things, and you adopt through emulation. Like baby ducks, we imprint from those we see around us. It’s one of the ways we learn. This instinctual approach ensures we learn the ropes quickly but may lead to some practices being adopted without much challenge.

Some of these working and structural patterns are foundational and valid back at the point in history when they became commonplace. Today, enough has changed that many fundamental assumptions about common work paradigms can be challenged.

As things change, such as the speed of communication and the commodification of industries, sectors, tools and practices, the way things are done may become outdated. The degree of entrenchment may mean we don’t recognise this as quickly. It’s part of the fabric of how organisations run. People say;

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