40. Everyone Wears Clothes for a Reason
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A policy of total openness makes progress grind to a stop.
Organizations that consider themselves “open” are usually pretty pleased to be so. They brag,“We’re an open shop here,” and expect others to be properly impressed. But there is a downside to too much openness, nicely expressed by intelligence studies pioneer Herb Simon: “An abundance of information creates a paucity of attention.”1 When the ratio of information to attention gets high enough, we’re in overload. More information doesn’t help.
1 H.A. Simon, “Designing Organizations for an Information-Rich World,” in The ...
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