All too often, legacy management practices reflexively perpetuate the past - by over-weighting the views of long-tenured executives, by valuing conformance more highly than creativity and by turning tired industry nostrums into sacred truths.
Interpretation
Legacy practices can inhibit innovation by prioritizing the opinions of long-standing executives and traditional methods over creativity.
This quote by Gary Hamel critiques legacy management practices that excessively rely on the perspectives of long-tenured executives. By valuing compliance over creativity, these practices can stifle innovation and reinforce outdated beliefs, ultimately hindering an organization's ability to adapt and thrive in a changing environment.
In practice
In a corporate training session discussing the importance of innovation.
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