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Experience is one of a leader’s greatest assets—but it can also hide costly assumptions in plain sight. In Part 3 of the Hidden in Plain Sight series, Tim Van Mieghem explores how inherited training, promote-from-within cultures, and organizational inertia can quietly suppress output for years. One untested machine setting reveals how much profit may be trapped behind “that’s how I was trained.”

Successful companies often have the biggest blind spots because nothing forces leaders to look deeper. This article explains how hidden profit stays invisible when teams rely on monthly averages, avoid uncomfortable truths, and operate in cultures where raising problems feels risky.

Most companies are sitting on hidden profit, capacity, and risk they can’t see. In this first article of the Hidden in Plain Sight series, Tim Van Mieghem explains why capable leaders miss hidden value, where it typically hides, and what it takes to uncover “Shocking Profit” before a crisis or buyer forces the deeper look.