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The Apple Pie Position in Organizational Behavior
When an organization gets sufficiently large, one of the chief implicit goals of nearly every participant or employee in the organization is to sound smart in meetings. The personal risk for individual of pushing back on what is said is so high that in a meeting, everybody nods yes even though it may not be the right answer. "If we addressed them, we might actually be harming the missine then helping it," he says.