Realists and different thinkers don’t have much of a place in corporate

I liked that tweet as an image for this post, although there are other good options, including:

There are any number of reasons why work doesn’t seem to ever change, including power dynamics, the fact that work is constantly about tasks (which burns people out), the fact that no one seems to prioritize “retention” so team composition and managerial roles are always shifting (no continuity), and then there’s the BIG KAHUNA OF THEM ALL. What’s that, you ask?

If you think even a little bit differently in a corporate setting, you will get pushed out within a few months to a year.

Here’s Work Futures recently:

Realists are forced out by the organizational immune system, especially when confronting senior leadership about the cognitive biases inherent in most policy settings. At the most obvious, pointing out that some initiative is based on optimistic projections will lead to the realist being sidelined as a troublemaker intent on demotivating people.

Yes. This is a core problem of most organizations: a person who is a realist, or honestly oftentimes a person…