Business leaders often get trapped by their organization's founding myth, the story that made them successful. The speaker argues that celebrating founders as heroes and clinging to "fail fast" culture actually prevents necessary change and locks companies into outdated identities.
But when the leadership sit down and they look at this in quiet moments by themselves, maybe they might be able to remember or understand or identify the myth that is at the heart of this business. They have been business school case studies for success. Their founders have been lauded. They are the guardians of their clients' needs. Modern concepts of failing fast are both morally wrong and strategically irresponsible. But their myth has become their prison. They cannot move away from this because this is how they defined themselves.
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