Our nonprofit board keeps talking about 'getting back to our roots' whenever we face budget cuts but those roots were 30 years ago with different problems and I think we're using nostalgia to avoid making hard choices about what programs to cut.
More people experience this than they realize.
Organizational nostalgia becomes a substitute for strategic decision-making under pressure.
“Where Are You with Nostalgia — its function and its limits?”
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