Scott D. Anthony

If you are questioning the status quo in 1548, who are you questioning?

You are questioning the king or you are questioning God.

That's not a good thing.

We do not issue proclamations like this, but we still act like they exist inside many of our organizations.

We punish people for taking well thought out risks, for trying things, for experimenting.

And then individuals, they get scar tissue.

They internalize it.

They say the safest thing for me to do is to not do anything at all.

That compounds something that we all as humans suffer from known as the status quo bias.

All things being equal, we'd like things to remain exactly the same.

I said it before.

I'll say it again.

I love disruption.

The first time I got into a robo taxi, my palms got sweaty.

I got nervous because I'm a human.

The new and unfamiliar still strikes me to my core.

So what we need in our organization is we need to make sure that it's clear that it's okay to try.

It's okay to be nervous.

It's okay if things don't work out.

As long as, of course, we do it in the right way.