“No” has become the most popular word in most organizations.
Can we try something new? No. Can we rethink a few corporate policies? No. Can we get outside our comfort zone and go for growth? No.
It’s not that leaders don’t want to innovate. Most do. But complexity in all its forms has emerged as the most intractable CEO issue of our time. What was necessary to start great businesses has been suffocated by what was necessary to scale them.
Almost any person in the....