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Here's @ShaneAParrish on "The Stormtrooper Problem" in Intelligence Agencies: Once you eliminate the misfits, you can't creatively problem solve.
We actually try to eliminate [misfits] through the hiring process, through the promotion process, through everything." (1/5)
We actually try to eliminate [misfits] through the hiring process, through the promotion process, through everything." (1/5)
"..to get into the agencies there's this narrow background you can have, you couldn't have gotten in much trouble, you typically went to a great school and got good grades, you didn't stand out in any sort of crazy way. They view that as the way to reduce security risks..." (2/5)
"The problem is you get these people into an organization, these large organizations, and you give them a checklist. 'You need to do these ten things and then you'll get promoted.'" (3/5)
"Suddenly they wake up at 30 & they're given a problem that you can't google, that there's no procedure for, that hasn't existed before, and they're told to solve it. It's not one particular person, it's the collective, who looks at that problem through very narrow lenses." (4/5)
"And you're not getting the misfits or the deviants or the people who aren't necessarily a security risk but might have more of a checkered past, or maybe got in trouble in high school or whatever... and when you eliminate those people, you can't creatively problem-solve." (5/5)
