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Nick Hassett: The Problem Won't Be Solved by the Thinking That Created It

Nick Hassett: The Problem Won't Be Solved by the Thinking That Created It

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Nick Hassett has spent more than three decades intervening in organisations under pressure—not as a theorist, but as someone called in when the politics are already difficult and the gap between what the board believes is happening and what is actually happening has grown wider than anyone has yet said aloud. His work spans banking, technology, essential infrastructure, and sport across Australia and Asia, covering the full arc of an organisation in trouble: mobilisation, intervention, and recovery.In this conversation, we explore why transformation programmes fail when the people leading the change are, in important respects, the architects of the conditions they are trying to fix. Drawing on Nick's extensive experience working at the intersection of boards, executive teams, and operational reality, we discuss what it actually takes to bring a different structure of thinking to bear—where alignment breaks down, why accountability cultures can paradoxically produce silos, and what boards are getting wrong about AI governance while their staff adopt it unsanctioned.TakeawaysWhy the thinking that built the current operating model cannot be the same thinking that dismantles it — and what a "different brand of leadership" requires in practice.How accountability cultures, left uncalibrated, create silos and destroy the cross-functional collaboration on which real execution depends.The fragility of organisational alignment — why consensus often evaporates at the boardroom door, and what that costs in misdirected effort.Where the board–CEO relationship breaks down during transformation, and why that single relationship is the first point of failure.What boards are missing about shadow AI adoption — and why banning a technology does not eliminate the risk.The question nobody asks at the start of a transformation: what does success look like, how will we measure it, and what is my exit strategy?Why the pattern repeats — Six Sigma, digital, AI — and what that tells us about the enduring nature of leadership problems beneath the technology of the moment.Chapters[00:00] – Cold open: every box ticked, still failing — the accountability trap that creates silos[01:14] – Subscriber message[01:41] – Show introduction: the thinking that built the problem cannot fix it[03:58] – A career forged by evolution: thirty-five years in strategy execution[05:22] – The constant is people: helping organisations think through problems[05:50] – The common thread across banking, infrastructure, technology, and sport: regulation and complexity[07:58] – Mobilisation, intervention, and recovery: how engagements begin[08:32] – "I'll see you in two years": why organisations that try to go it alone usually fail[10:54] – Headcount reduction as the lazy option, and strategy by "throwing wheat at the side of a barn"[13:13] – The humility to not compete on subject matter expertise[14:23] – Challenging the starting hypothesis: when the board's diagnosis is part of the problem[16:35] – Coaching through the valley of despair — and futures that don't include everyone[18:07] – Scientism versus the relational: why diagnosis alone does not produce change[18:49] – Case study: an accountability culture that siloed itself into failure[21:43] – True accountability is cross-functional: responsibility, ownership, and ramifications[22:42] – Getting off the dance floor and onto the balcony: input measures versus outcomes[23:59] – The disinterested third party: putting yourself in the MD's shoes[26:59] – Pragmatism and the rate of change an organisation can absorb[28:00] – Where alignment breaks down: the board–CEO relationship as first point of failure[31:36] – Translation risk: how board priorities wash through policy, management systems, and operations[33:41] – Alignment that is only room deep: when consensus evaporates at the door[35:08] – The investment in alignment: spend the time or guarantee the points of failure[36:02] – The board's information problem: filtered reporting and the limits of oversight[37:04] – How board directors discharge their obligations: questioning management[38:15] – Intergalactic battlestars: boards that bounce from issue to issue[39:15] – AI and the board: why workshopping how to use AI may be the worst thing a board could do[41:33] – Men in Black and collective panic: when AI-generated material is convincing but not plausible[43:49] – Shadow AI: banning a technology does not eliminate the risk[44:15] – Head in the sand: the competitive cost of inaction on AI[45:56] – Discussing failure rates: the reluctance to talk honestly about what is not working[47:10] – Digital déjà vu: ten years ago it was digital, twenty years ago it was Six Sigma[49:31] – The flight magazine and the sixteen black belts: impetuous adoption without thinking through implications[51:15] – The problem remains a leadership problem: replace the technology label, and the ...
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