Chesterton's Fence is a cautionary tale to make sure that before you change things you actually understand their purpose. This is particularly important for controls or other risk mitigation. When new leaders come into an organization they sometimes look at the array of controls and want to streamline them. So they start whittling away at things that apparently don't make sense or have no obvious purpose and then a few months later (maybe less maybe more) you start seeing issues, incidents or o
