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There seems to be a trend among Fortune 100 management that belief = reality. This attitude makes sense perhaps if you're a personal trainer to help motivate pe

There seems to be a trend among Fortune 100 management that belief = reality. This attitude makes sense perhaps if you're a personal trainer to help motivate people but management doesn't seem to understand that they need to shape up and convince a fairly low engagement workforce that they're all in it together and that they know what they did in the past isn't how they're going to run things in the future. This can be accomplished by hiring well-known rather than well-connected leadership, firing old managers, and rewarding employees in ways not seen before.

wpietri 10y ago
> There seems to be a trend among Fortune 100 management that belief = reality. That makes total sense to me. The larger a top-down organization is, the more the people on top exist in a reality that is socially mediated. That's especially true given that the theory of the MBA is that it's a universal management degree, meaning that knowledge of the domain is at best secondary. In a social context, confidence is very appealing. Strong belief becomes executives' reality.