The second pitfall is that we think that the problems we create for ourselves every time we raise the bar and attempt to produce a new level of result, can be solved with with more of what we have done before.

This is particularly true of people who have been very successful, who become attached to their recipe for success - even when it is no longer working. It is very difficult to step out of what we know has worked and see a situation with new eyes. It requires more than a genuine intention of not being attached - it requires a new set of practices that we can trust.  This phenomenon is both an individual, a work-group/ organizational phenomenon. At the level of the leading executive and of groupthink in the organization, falling into this pitfall becomes lethal to the purpose and performance of the organization.