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Breaking Free from Rigidity: How Insecurity Leads to Rigid Thinking and Limits Progress

Is your team stuck following rules, or are you actually delivering value? Confidence in your skills is the difference between real progress and just checking boxes. It's time to break free from rigid thinking—are you ready to challenge the status quo?

From my experience, I’ve seen how frameworks can be both a blessing and a curse. They provide valuable structure but can easily become crutches. When I’ve worked with people who lacked the confidence or skills to adapt these systems to real-world challenges, I noticed they often clung to them rigidly. In my work across product management, UX, engineering, and agile software development—including…