Zen master Dogen taught that to study the self is to forget the self — but product theorist Clayton Christensen made a structurally identical discovery in boardrooms: organizations fail not from ignorance of new threats, but from over-investment in their existing identity. Both are diagnosing the same trap: the self-model becomes a cage. When your definition of who you are prevents you from seeing what's needed, expertise becomes the obstacle. Drop the résumé. Solve the problem.

Where in your work are you performing a version of yourself rather than responding to what the situation actually requires?

Drawing from Zen Buddhism × Innovation Theory — Synthesized: Dogen / Clayton Christensen