I wrote recently about the ‘if it aint broke don’t fix it’ attitude of many owners and managers. It’s a significant, though usually unrecognized, problem. It perpetuates the status quo, promotes narrow thinking, and discourages innovation.
I think it was Sam Walton (founder of Wal-Mart) who said ‘if it ain’t broke… break it’.
Of course the idea is not simply destruction for the sake of destruction. It is to create something better without what we already know, and do, getting in the way. It is to rethink everything… even the stuff that is going great (at the moment) because eventually everything is broken.
It’s excellent advice if you can get your head around it. Needless to say most can’t.
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