The rules and assumptions that govern our interactions are narrow. When one or both sides use these to drive any situation, the resulting outcome becomes limited to the response to those rules. The domino effect ensues pushing forward continued selection of the same closed system with no room for considering other innovations or novelties.
Sure an individual or organization might say this is a way to assure the fit with our value or culture. And ironically most everyone will affirm the desire for creativity, against the grain thinking, unique perspective and approaches.
But how can this be when it biases selection for the same qualities that define what you already are?
Do not fool or misconstrue this as openness. Openness is willingness to hear another perspective and to objectively consider it. To take the extra effort to understand it from another point of view or omniscient point of view.
We don’t actually want for a fresh perspective shift, we yearn for the same familiar company because change or different is scary.
Familiar is the equivalent of copying your best friend in grade school or following the latest fashion trend to fit in. So trite to say: if everyone else jumped off a bridge, would you do that to? Unfortunately in the corporate industry, it’s just another layer of pop culture, X did it that way, so will we. Although no one claimed there was success there.
The ignorant following imbecile gets bigger and richer, while the innovative thinker with a new method, untested, but still same amount of evidence as the failed experiment; gets cast off as “wrong” from the gate.
Sure, pretend you are inclusive and have genuine value system; it’s easy to perpetuate the common ideals of “woke” today and believe you are forging change. Forget that even those actions are created by repeating a structure that failed to look back and find ways to improve. Blind spots can be copied just as easily as a photographed picture.
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