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Does Your Organization Have Tunnel Vision? 2040’s Ideas and Innovations Newsletter, Issue 99

Does Your Organization Have Tunnel Vision? 2040’s Ideas and Innovations Newsletter, Issue 99

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Issue 99, March 16, 2023

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You think you see a light at the end of the digital tunnel, and then you realize it is the blinding light of tunnel vision that has derailed you. In considering how to change, transform or simply adapt to changing conditions across a market or profession, organizations (including ourselves) often fall back to doing what we know best and what has worked in the past under different circumstances. Believing we already know how to handle a problem, situation or even a request from others brings comfort and a sense of personal competency. We hold onto a (possibly false) level of confidence that we know how to lead, despite the dynamics of change that define us and our organizations.

Stalled in the Past

Generally speaking, we rely on our inherent, accumulated knowledge and experience to understand organizational systems, technolo…

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