Ep.35: Risk People in a Risk-Taking World

All right, you just mentioned diversity of thought.

So let's use that as a way to sort of pivot.

Every profession, right? has its own conferences.

You reference them as places where you actually get inspired and see really exciting things happening.

We have our influencers.

One might argue that you're one of them.

We have our own jargon and rules.

Compliance and HR are no different from any other profession in those respects.

But have compliance and HR... become too self-referential? Are we getting enough fresh ideas, enough fresh thinking from outside of the profession? Or have we gotten comfortable in a bit of a professional echo chamber?

I think it's the latter, 100%.

I don't know.

I mean, it's just like, you know, what I was describing before, you can be getting ideas from everything.

Like literally you watch any YouTube, you know, I love, you know, I keep going back to, you know, I love movies.

So I love watching, you know, videos about how movies are made and like interviews with directors and stuff.

It's just so fascinating to me.

Maybe in another life I'll be a movie director or something, but like, there's so much to gather from that.

Like literally anything is, you can be pulling from.

And I think there is a certain desire in this space to like get a recipe.

You know, I mean, you hear about it when the freaking DOJ puts out some guidance and everybody's like, well, it's not clear enough.

And it's like, well, how clear do you want it to be? Like we're not baking a cake.

It's crazy.

It's like, this is the concept.

This is the guidance.

Like that's enough to like run with.

And I think it's this sort of deference for Authority, the high conscientious, like we're not line steppers.