Turn your talent filter into a talent pipeline

Whenever I complain to my executive coach about a problem inside my organization, his go-to response is both irritating and insightful: “That’s your system.” I might be describing a missed target, a persistent challenge, or something that feels impossible to fix, but his point is always the same. The system is producing exactly what it was designed to produce. I need to stop looking for someone to blame and start looking at the design. My job is to get schools, employers, and governments w...