article thumbnail

Seven Problems a Recovery Won't Fix

Harvard Business Review

That's not just grossly unfair in common sense terms, it's a recipe for a society coming apart at the seams. Perhaps they don't care not just because the work they do feels pointless, but because, in human terms, it mostly is. But can you blame them? Dehumanization. If that sounds simple, it's anything but.

GDP 19
article thumbnail

Breaking the Death Grip of Legacy Technologies

Harvard Business Review

Managers constantly try to fit new market needs to existing processes and routines. And then the innovators improve the technology steadily over time, allowing it to serve more and more of the overall market, which causes great trauma for incumbents who stuck to their legacy ways of doing things. Our survival depended upon it.