Policies established to create order often unintentionally keep people from thinking.
“Let’s face it: corporate environments and modern organizations are the perfect setup for diminishing leadership and you have a certain built-in tyranny. The org charts, the hierarchy, the titles, the approval matrixes skew power toward the top and create incentives for people to shut down and comply. In any hierarchical organization the playing field is rarely level. The senior leaders stand on the high side of the field and ideas and policies roll easily down to the lower side. Policies established to create order often unintentionally keep people from thinking. At best, these policies limit intellectual range of motion as they straight jacket the thinking of the followers. At worst, these systems shut down thinking entirely.”
Liz Wiseman, Greg McKeown, multipliers Chapter 4, 2m 16s
