Some of the biggest problems in companies these days:
-Compliance gets people promoted, not brilliance
-We prefer to work around people most like ourselves
-Recruitment is about finding the most defendable choice of candidate, not the one most likely to be the very best
-Debate is seen as argument, not the route to progress
-Risk is considered reckless, not essential
-People are expected to fit into roles, not have roles expand around people
-We think we need data to find ideas, insights, when at best we need it to support them
-It's far easier to be fired for caring too much, than caring too little
-We think working hard is about hours, not intensity
-We devalue thinking and overvalue things that "look" like progress
-We add technology to our companies, not rethink and rebuild them around it