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My guess is that teams which have members with high sensitivity didn't do well, either. If you're afraid of speaking up because someone will get upset at you,
by adekok 10y ago
My guess is that teams which have members with high sensitivity didn't do well, either. If you're afraid of speaking up because someone will get upset at you, you're only a superficial member of the team.
Both of these criteria amount to different facets of the same thing: teams have to work together as a team. That sounds stupid, but practical criteria as given above help to define that simple statement.
- humanrebar 10y ago> high sensitivity I agree. That is probably the wrong term for the phenomenon. There are elements of forthrightness and trust that aren't captured by the word 'sensitivity'. On top of that 'sensitivity' carries negative connotations to many.
- ricksplat 10y agoI think this is what's called Power Distance Index (PDI) in Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory. It's a fairly well established set of sociability measurements that's been around since the 1970s and is quite well established. Interestingly it also emerged from another (perhaps the original) large multicultural global technology organisation: IBM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_distance