The Insider Fallacy, Why Closing the Door to External Senior Hires Won't Save Your Culture

Why the instinct to protect culture by blocking outside leaders gets the diagnosis backwards

A Conversation That Got Under My Skin

I was in a consulting session recently with a VP-level leader at a large technology company. Someone in the room asked him a deceptively simple question: What would you change about the culture if you could do anything?

He didn’t hesitate. The culture was deteriorating, he said. And his fix? Stop hiring externally for…