Comfort Zone Trap

A company's past success in one domain creates a comprehensive capability system (processes, aesthetics, metrics design, etc.). When entering a new market or domain, this very system becomes constraining, preventing adaptation to the new field's core requirements. Yesterday's winning capabilities become today's shackles.

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