Daron Yondem

Daron Yondem

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

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Daron Yondem
Mar 09, 2026
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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…

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