The status quo is a formidable entity. The reason that you are not challenging it is because you have been trained not to. When you join an organization, you figure out what the rules of the game are, play the game, and progress, collecting your salary as you pass GO . After all, that's what many years of education has trained you to do. The person that questions, "why," is the first to get shut down. Just look at how you treat a toddler when he or she asks "why" one too many times. This all may sound a little Seth Godin , but the truth is that sometimes the status quo is not the status quo at all; it's a broken process or system that's been accepted. And instead of being praised for calling out how broken it is, you just ended up being put on a proverbial black list. If you feel like something is wrong with the status quo, take a chance. Question it. Make a stink about it. Do something about it. The worse thing you can do is nothing an...
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