There’s a particular kind of organizational stubbornness that most companies don’t even realize they have. Left unexamined, it takes on a life of its own – a shape-shifting creature with many forms. It appears as the onboarding checklist that assumes everyone needs a laptop waiting at their freshly dusted cubicle or shipped directly to their home address. Then, it resurfaces as the all-hands meeting invite that goes out to “all staff” without a second thought. It shows up again, most stubbornly, in the KPI dashboard that equates headcount with success.
It might be a polite creature – it doesn’t mean any harm. You might have even named it, “legacy thinking” or “always-been-done-that-way.” But call it what it is: a monster. It is quietly undermining your ability to work effectively with an org chart and flexible talent side by side.
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