Episode #40 – Management Inbreeding with Darrin Ladd




Agile Weekly Podcast show

Summary: Jade Meskill, Roy van de Water and Chris Coneybeer are joined by special guest Darrin Ladd from Big Visible to discuss management inbreeding. Managers promote people that are most like themselves Both positive/negative traits start to feedback on themselves Innovation decreases as the organization becomes Homogenous Larger organizations have greater inertia so the culture needs to have more disruptive members in order to change It is extremely difficult to try to eliminate inbreeding within an organization from within Reckless attempts can be met with blacklisting