A simple, axiomatic, but profound thought that shapes our organizations and institutions - Organizational knowledge: "It’s a common, powerful human behavior: most of us pay more attention to news, events, and opinions that seem to confirm our ideas than to evidence that those ideas may be wrong; most of us look for reasons to justify what we’ve already decided we want to do. And we live in a culture that values certainty more than doubt, especially in our leaders." (emphasis added).
Posted by gsiemens at January 24, 2006 8:35 PM