Here’s an interesting notion. Granted it comes from an examination of business cultures, but do we know of a group (business) that this describes pretty well?
HBS Working Knowledge: Leadership: Don’t Listen to “Yes”
Finally, a “culture of maybe” exists when companies are highly analytical, yet also quite uncomfortable with ambiguity. They go to great lengths to gather more information and to perform additional formal analysis, in hopes of reducing the ambiguity associated with various options and contingencies. They strive for certainty in an inherently uncertain world
August 6th, 2005 at 6:29 am
My thoughts on the August Blog-in
While it isn’t a direct post about the Blog-in, Nate has a post that talks about a “Culture of Maybe,” and I wonder if that is the reason why we have such a hard time getting people talking. I think that “maybe,” is one of the reasons that we are …