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When startup teams get paralyzed by their founding mythology

Our startup team constantly references 'the early days' when we were scrappy and everything felt possible and I'm starting to think it's keeping us from making the hard decisions we need to scale but everyone acts like I'm being disloyal to our origin story when I bring this up.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Collective nostalgia becomes a barrier to necessary organizational evolution.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Nostalgia — its function and its limits?”

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