Here’s why straight-line thinking fails in business

Linear thinking can miss how real business systems work, where strategy is rarely straight-line and success depends on adaptation and reframing.

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Tough to see around the next corner with straight line thinking.

Look out the window. Do you see any straight lines in nature? Is thinking in a linear way, our built-in default mode of business intelligence? Or, should one also understand systems? Why is it that our most obvious choice is often wrong? Does black and white exist on the management palette -- or are business decisions often shades of gray, not to mention the shocking red and warning sign yellow? Do we prefer simple straight lines, often assuming that doubling an effort yields double the result?

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