There are few more pernicious phrases in organisations than ‘not the right fit’. Not white enough. Not able bodied enough. Not middle class enough. Not male enough. Not straight enough. Not compliant enough. Not convergent-thinking enough. Not the right university attended…

Not the right accent. Not the right culture. When we recruit for fit, we doom organisations. We reproduce the same old ideas, the same old practices, the same old ways of doing things. It clings to a world that is past when the real world is changing. Doom. Give me the wrong fit any day.