Are You Making Faulty Assumptions? Part II, 2040’s Ideas and Innovations Newsletter, Issue 108

Issue 108, May 11, 2023

Last week we explored how making bad assumptions can derail a business model and debilitate a team. Operational assessment and readiness can fall victim overnight based on assumptions that are out of alignment with shared purpose and market orientation. As we have stated, often the infrastructure can be so dysfunctional that bringing new strategies to life and achieving new goals simply isn’t possible. Here are a few signs that indicate a lack of readiness for change:

• Silos or silos within silos mentality with little to no cross functional collaboration throughout the organization.

• Pervasive resistance to experimentation with a preference to do it the way it always has been done.

• Lack of critical thinking to challenge the status quo and identify upstream and downstream challenges.

• Tendency to report on efforts with inadequate outcome reporting with little to no analysis.

• Avoidance of accountability and bad news.

• Ongoing data discrepancies and a lack of cross functiona…