Logan Yonavjak's 'yes AND' — 'structure constrains bad leaders without necessarily producing good ones'

Two decades of translating ESG into risk-and-return language, turned on the book's central claim. Yonavjak calls the case for designing companies to resist extraction the one she has spent her career circling, then argues design is necessary but not sufficient: the governance can be right and the leader still wrong. Her closing point is the sharper one — mission lock was built for quarterly-earnings pressure, not for a world where one leader's judgment is amplified across millions of automated decisions.

“structure constrains bad leaders without necessarily producing good ones. You can have the right governance structure, legal mechanisms, and mission, but we also need to pay attention to the mindset, business philosophy, and decision making approaches of the leaders themselves.” — Logan Yonavjak on LinkedIn