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Change is the hardest thing
During the last several years I have worn many hats, from investment partner to COO, a Board member and advisor and, of late, start up exec. From these vantage points, I note a recurring theme: bad habits die hard. There is an entrenched fabric to most organizations that supports unquestioned assumptions and the reversion to: "this is how we do things". I recently read an interview in the MIT Sloan Review with Tom Malone, he of organizational effectiveness and design fame.
