Success Can Preserve the Conditions of Future Failure
Executive Field Note 039
Success validates more than the decision that produced it.
It validates the assumptions.
The process.
The people.
The measures.
The story the organization tells about why it succeeded.
That story then becomes evidence for doing the same thing again.
Sometimes correctly.
Sometimes long after the conditions that made it true have disappeared.
Failure invites examination.
Success can postpone it.
Executive Question
What assumption survives primarily because it was once associated with success?
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