Dirty Chai with Chio Ep 3 - Lessons on Being a Corporate Change Agent from the CIA

I was at brunch with 2 friends who also happen to be C Suite executives. One of them expressed her frustration at the resistance she was experiencing to an idea that would improve her organisation. "It doesn't make any sense!" My immediate answer was to tell her to research Carmen Medina. Her story of trying to bring the CIA into the modern age of the internet is an apt example of the fact that being right is not enough. You need so much more. Carmen's story of failure and eventual redemption is brimming with lessons for the modern corporate individual. The higher you rise through the ranks, the more important it is to understand that being right is 1 ingredient of a few that are each key to the success recipe. Let me tell you her story.