Why Fixing Problems Can Make Things WORSE!

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If we aren't careful, we can break things that are working while we try to fix the things that are broken. This is very likely to happen during directional changes or changes to leadership.

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Chapters:
0:00 Don't Break What Works
0:21 New Leadership, New Problems
1:22 Familiarity Can Breed Contempt
3:30 Chesterton's Fence
6:12 Fix 5 break 6
7:36 My Biases



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