importantSYS.SOURCE: Ian Reppel• 2026-07-10T13:31:08Z

The Decline of Competence in Established Companies: A Cavefish Analogy

#Corporate Culture#Business Strategy#Organizational Behavior

The article explores how successful companies develop 'competence blindness' by losing the ability to recognize and value the skills that initially drove their success, using the Mexican cavefish's evolutionary adaptation as a metaphor. It highlights how internal processes like biased hiring, bureaucratic entrenchment, and suppressed innovation lead to declining technical excellence and organizational stagnation.

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