Your team lives in Albert Einstein’s description of insanity: Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results? Popular mottos like “Don’t fix if there is no break”, “Don’t swing the boat” and “Let the sleeping dog lie”, all tend to favor the status quo with a natural tendency. Research has proven that individuals can choose to do new things or stay with the status quo while they are overwhelmingly staying in the status quo.
The danger of always leaning towards the status quo is the fact that humans are usually risk aversion. Since the status quo deviates from the status quo, you will put you at risk and have risks, potential failures, so it is easy to understand why people are satisfied with the status quo. Unfortunately, in some cases, the status quo is the least ideal choice and has the potential to lead to a decline. Generally, the threat of loss has a greater impact on decision-making than the same benefits. The reaction to loss is more extreme than the reaction to gain.
Therefore, many strategic decisions weigh too much on potential negative outcomes because psychologically, dissatisfaction associated with losing money or market share points is greater than the pleasure associated with gaining the same amount of fun. This principle of human nature has a great impact on strategic decision-making and must be taken into account that always acts in a risk-avoiding way when the possibility of success is greater.
In my business graphic novel Strategy Administrators and Counter-Strategy Squad: Use strategic thinking to defeat bad strategies and save plansthe villain representing this issue is the status quo.
Take into account the following three technologies to avoid getting stuck in the status quo:
1. Focus on the desired results and use them as a measure between the status quo and other alternatives.
2. Check the actual changes required to abandon the status quo, because reality is usually less painful than imagined.
3. Explore a range of alternatives beyond the status quo to fully understand the potential action plan and its accompanying benefits.
