Experienced leaders often reject innovations because they remember past failures with similar ideas, but the context may have changed—technology may have matured, world situation may have shifted—making ideas that previously failed now viable, yet experienced leaders' scar tissue from past failures blocks adoption.

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Speaker

Gary Klein

Evidence Quote

people with with experience have lots of scar tissue of things that that got tried before and failed... the experienced people, the senior people in the organization... They're going to say, 'You know, we tried that and it didn't work.'

Source

Insights for Making Better Decisions | Gary Klein | Knowledge Project 144The Knowledge Project Podcast
Created: 8/11/2026, 1:47:10 AM

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