What happens if you ignore chaos for a while?
It subtly and seamlessly integrates into your familiar context.
To the point where parting with it becomes a challenge.
Any changes feel like disrupting the dear status quo.
Voila! The disorder becomes the new order. We can observe this phenomenon at all levels — from a country to a flat.
Disrupted families and organizations are quite similar. To an outsider, it seems like stepping into a madhouse. People behave oddly but pretend it's normal.
This distortion of reality applies to everyone. What's glaringly obvious to an onlooker, we simply don't see. And when they point out the anomaly, we may even resist at first.
Thus, every "system" needs a tool to detect and fix the inevitable glitch in time. For an individual, it's friends, confession, or therapy. For a company — an audit, advisor, or board.
In other words, the "system" must acknowledge its vulnerability and the need for an external perspective. Individuals, organizations, and nations evolve and excel only by overcoming pride, complacency, and isolationism.
Sincerely yours,
-Alexander
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As a business therapist, I help tech founders quickly solve dilemmas at the intersection of business and personality, and boost company value as a result.
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