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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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