Gabriela Gutierrez — 'That's the entire compliance problem in two sentences'

Gabriela Gutierrez — compliance and ethics practitioner — picks up Ries's vault-with-no-locks framing as the most honest thing she's read about why organizations fail ethically: it's not bad people, it's bad design. Frames financial gravity as the invisible force that bends principled leaders away, and integrity as something that has to be designed in from the start rather than bolted on afterward.

“If you create a massive vault full of the most valuable assets in the world, people are going to try to steal it from you. Obviously. But we built these companies with no locks on the vault. What are we doing?” — Eric Ries, quoted by Gabriela Gutierrez on LinkedIn