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

What happens when the people charged with fixing an organisation are, in important respects, the architects of its current condition?In this episode of On the Subject of Leadership, I speak with Nick Hassett—an independent strategy execution advisor who has spent more than three decades working at the intersection of boards, executive teams, and the operational realities they are often shielded from—about why transformation programmes fail, and what it takes to intervene when the gap between what an organisation says it is doing and what it is actually doing has grown wider than anyone has yet said aloud.This is not a conversation about methodology. It is a conversation about the structural and relational conditions under which change becomes possible, and about the discipline required to think clearly when an organisation's existing habits of mind are precisely what produced the problem.Nick's career spans banking, technology, essential infrastructure, and sport across Australia and…