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The Curse of Knowledge Meets The Valley of Death
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
The Power of Disagreement
IBM wanted to understand how workplace culture differed from country to country. In a culture with low power distance, an employee who gets an apparently stupid instruction feels free to say: 'Is your boss?' Where the power distance is high, "'the employee silently gulps,'" and carries out the stupid instruction." Malcolm Gladwell's book, Outliers, describes how countries with a high power distance used to have more fatal plane crashes.
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