Learned Helplessness
I bet you’ve heard, or yourself said, “that’s just the way we do it.”
This is said in response to whenever someone questions how something is being done. We often respond by pointing out the constraints that have led us to do it that way. “You can’t do this or that and so we do it this way.”
I was sent a terrific article from the Harvard Business Review. In it, Ron Ashkenas talks about the ways that we give in to the status quo in our organization. Here is part of it that stood out to me:
All managers face real constraints. Effective managers differentiate between those that must be accepted and those that can be challenged.There’s so sense continuing to run into a closed door. However, there are many times we need to realize that there might be ways to open the door. It is the effective leaders that are able to distinguish between the two of these. In my experience, there are far more times that the second scenario is applicable than we might think. Click here to read the full article. Have you learned helplessnes? It might be possible to open that door slammed shut in front of you.
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