Hear the sound of curdling: Yahoo slides into The Big Rut

There’s a great scene in an episode of the wonderful animated comedy series ‘King of the Hill’ where Bobby, the precocious son of the eponymous Hill family gets so (accidentally) hyped on hallucinogenic drugs that he can tell the actual moment milk goes sour in the fridge.(“…aaaaaaand there it goes”, he says, standing outside the fridge with the door closed, a dopey expression on his face).

There’s a similar moment in the lives of many organizations, where, if you watch carefully enough, you can tell the exact moment they move from Treadmill into The Big Rut.

Courtesy of Tracy Brisson (@oppsproject) here’s the very moment we get to see Yahoo’s milk curdling as they lose the ability to self-diagnose, thus sliding inexorably into The Big Rut.

Scary, isn’t it?

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About the Author

Les McKeown is the Founder and CEO of Predictable Success.

Les is the author of "Predictable Success: Getting Your Organization On the Growth Track - and Keeping It There". "The Synergist: How to Lead Your Team to Predictable Success", "Do Lead: Share Your Vision. Inspire Others. Achieve the Impossible" and most recently "Do Scale: A Roadmap to Building a Remarkable Company".