Article. Metaphor Malware: The Clumsy Thinking that is Crippling your Business Understanding
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Mar 15, 2024
Exploring the misleading nature of common business comparisons, benefits of using fresh metaphors for critical thinking, origins of e-commerce strategies, and potential pitfalls of applying incorrect frameworks and metaphors.
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Metaphors: Double-Edged Sword
Metaphors create quick understanding by linking unrelated ideas and enabling new insights.
However, cliche metaphors bypass active thinking and hinder true comprehension.
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No Universal Best Starting Category
Different successful ecommerce companies chose different first product categories sensitive to their markets and cultures.
No one category, including books for Amazon, is universally the "best" to start with.
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Narrative Fallacy Limits Understanding
We create stories to explain outcomes from single experiments, assuming inevitability.
This narrative fallacy blocks deeper understanding of complex and unique events.
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