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by Simon Baker.
Original Post: Become part of the status quo or leave?
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If you can't work with the status quo of a company should you get out rather than try to change it?
The status quo - the existing state of affairs - is a natural phenomenon. I think the problems start when the need is felt to protect and defend the status quo because this tells me that continuous improvement has stopped. Continuous improvement is about making successive small changes forever, based on application, inspection and adaptation, that bring about progressive improvements. In my experience, in the absence of continuous improvement the status quo stagnates.
When you care care about the company (and you should care) you want to try to help it improve so that it can become more successful. Why wouldn't a company want to get better at what it does? But ultimately change has to come from within and if the company and its people are happy with the status quo and you're not, I think they're best left alone and you're better off out of it. It's a tough call but what does you're conscience say?
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