How corporate prejudices are strangling innovation in the workplace

In the gleaming conference rooms of corporate India, a familiar drama unfolds. The candidate speaks with polished confidence, drops the right names, and boasts credentials from prestigious institution. The interview panel nods approvingly. Yet months later, the same executives wonder why their star hire has failed to deliver.

“He was extremely fluent, very suave and rather presentable—a smooth talker,” recalls Emmanuel David, a seasoned HR leader, describing a recruitment disaster that cost his company dearly. “The leadership and the board were impressed. But three to six months in, his talk didn’t match his walk.”

This cautionary tale exposes a deeper malaise in modern workplaces: the silent sabotage of assumption. In an era where image often trumps inquiry, organisations are systematically mistaking fluency for intelligence, confidence for competence, and credentials for capability.

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