Santos: Education traps leaders in incremental 'more, better, different' cycles
Ted Santos · He Who Masters Self Masters Chaos: Ted Santos on Why Jobs Went to India · Sep 2, 2025 · at 3:27
Ted Santos, president of Turnaround Investment Partners, explains why standard organizational problem-solving models fail to produce breakthrough innovation.
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“I would say the paradigm that we are given is all about evolution more, better, different. So we're doing X and we want to do it. We want to do more of it. So we try and do more. If that doesn't work, then we do it better. If that doesn't work, we do it differently. And that's just the paradigm we're given. That's part of our education system. It's part of our mindset. And so it gives us almost a hamster on the wheel of trying harder, the little red caboose.”
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