Pathways to obsolescence - Dr.Subir Gokarn

.....Organisations succeed and grow because they figure out how to do a few things very well. These things - products or services, with all the attendant processes - then expectedly tend to crowd out everything else they do. People move up the ladder because they have been associated with successful activities. Over a period of time, the top leadership comprises exclusively people who have all come up in exactly this fashion. The focus of the organisation on these activities and the reward and recognition systems tied to them gradually leads to the disappearance of everybody who has other interests or perspectives, particularly from the top leadership......

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