Senior leaders need to constantly question their own strategies by hunting for disconfirming evidence, not confirmation. AI and other disruptions accelerate obsolescence, so treating strategy as a one-time win creates blindness. Relentless self-critique keeps organizations adaptable.
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guess that's the big takeaway from the Southwest case, is that if a senior management team can be convinced, just as a matter of principle, that its brightest, most brilliant strategy is obsolete in some way, is defective in some way, or obsoleting in some way, and there are things that are gonna happen, like AI, that are gonna accelerate that obsolescence, And the faster you pick up on these things, the better you are. That this is a, this is not a game of a one-time win that you defend. This is a game of rigorously examining the holes in your
thinking. Where are you looking for? You are literally on a constant basis looking for the rebuttal to your hypothesis. It is the scientist method in action, right? If you're a scientist and you're looking to, you know, do an experiment to prove your hypothesis, you are not looking to confirm it. You are looking to disconfirm it so that you can try the next thing. You need to be looking for the nonconforming evidence that your strategy is perfect, because if you think it's perfect, you are both blind and dumb. You know, it's like if somebody asks you how you are and you say, I'm dying. It's true.
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