I am pretty much the guy who loves traditions. Coming from the place I come it is not uncommon. However, as traditions and wisdom of the past are good in some areas of life, they are what many business failures stem from.

1. People of business talk about flexibility and its importance in proper responding to the market needs. With the constantly increasing speed of life, this thesis proves to be more true every day.
2. When you stick to traditions, you tend to repeat your behaviour. This makes you a very good and easy target for the guys that confront you in the market competition. So, it’s better if you should that target first and do something they’d never expect.
3. If being conservative means doing things you always do, you’ll never create anything really new. Think out of the box, do some brainstorming, hire people from outside, break some of your rules and you’ll find yourself a creative inventor you never were.

You can come up with many more examples that would prove the point I am trying to make. You can come up with as many that would fairly contradict these. Both ways are true, you just need to start thinking from the position you are in at a certain moment. You just need to think. Instead of blindly sticking to rules…

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