Open source and InnerSource advocates have mountains of evidence that these practices are objectively better for their organizations. Yet many organizations still resist: "We're highly regulated, we're conservative, we are not used to operating this way..." Why would sophisticated and intelligent organizations resist good ideas? That seems counterproductive. It's worth understanding what drives the resistance to help unblock your company's path to success. This talk will explore essential functional issues that different organizations face. We will use words like "culture" and "behaviors" but will define those words operationally, to be measured and classified. We will focus on the nature of bureaucracy as both a liability and a potential asset to your journey. And we'll recast the modalities of open source as found external to the workplace in terms that make sense internally. As a result, you'll have a framing that will help you translate the conversations that take place here into discussions that you can bring back to the workplace. Instead of evangelizing a message "we should do more open source" you'll be more attuned to ask "what decisions are causing these outcomes?"