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Any profession, and any organization, can lose its creativity if it sticks too long to principles and beliefs that have outlived their relevance. In his new book The Future of Management (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2007), Gary Hamel observes that rooting out dogma is all about asking the right questions �" repeatedly...

• Is this a belief worth challenging? Is it debilitating? Does it get in the way of an important organizational attribute that we'd like to strengthen?
• Is this belief universally valid? Are there counter-examples? If so, what do we learn from those cases?
• How does this belief serve the interests of its adherents? Are there people who draw reassurance or comfort from this belief?
• Have our choices and assumptions conspired to make this belief self-fulfilling? Is this belief true simply because we have made it true �" and, if so, can we imagine alternatives?

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