All opinions and experiences welcome!
Got a response to this question on another channel and thought I’d post it here:
George, in response to your question**: “Why do intelligent, capable people preserve systems they already know are failing?”, another way of phrasing that is “Why do intelligent, capable people not want to make things better?”. It’s not a better question but speaks to a state of mind that people like you and me have, but not - clearly - a lot of other people don’t.
Several years ago I work with a leader who would not always “win” in various organizational political battles, but he NEVER “lost”, and found himself on the wrong side of history. That sounds like a lot of modern day company/corporate leaders, and why is that? Where are the days where great American leaders and their staff were constantly striving to be the best in the world?
That’s a big question and I certainly don’t have a complete answer, but I do think I have a physiological observation that increasingly people are much less interested in “winning” and much motivated by “NOT losing”.
The risk in any change is that it doesn’t make things better, that somehow we will be no further forward and additional resources will have been wasted, and there will be a consequence for that, and the leader of that change will be the prime candidate.
Anyway, my point isn’t that this is news to you, but that I think it’s another strength of what you’re trying to do in framing the waste/opportunities as SCRAP - by framing as a system, and creating a marketplace for insights to be measured and assessed, we encourage collaboration, a more “us” than “me” culture, and we give ourselves a better chance of wanting to do something to address our failing systems.
Intelligent people acting irrationally in a certain context. This reminds me of Dan Ariely’s book Predictably Irrational. I think what you have in SCRAP is a systems thinking equivalent to Ariely’s economic thinking.
Thanks Tom! I really have to read that now 
Rather than reading the whole book find a summary of it.
Note the irrational patterns he uses. Very similar to your thinking process with SCRAP.