Organizational alignment isn’t necessarily a positive. Huh? Having everyone on the same page, aligned, and headed in one direction can be a very good thing…unless of course the same page happens to be in the wrong book and/or the direction is the wrong direction.
There is something called ‘Choice-supportive bias‘.
In short, you ascribe much value to the known quantity that is your decisions.
When someone looks to take a company or a division a new direction or re-align sales territories they are bucking the system. Perhaps in a small way, perhaps in a big way, but either way, there is no longer alignment but rather diffusion is introduced.
If you are in sales or marketing you run up against this everyday. When I am selling something I am attempting to challenge another individual’s (or company’s) past decision/s. This is emotional. People, myself included, really like the decisions we have made and sometimes hate it when people try to ‘buck’ their system. Continue reading “If your biased and you know it clap your hands”