200 • Program Management in Defense and High Tech Environments
New ideas and insights are thus suppressed, and catastrophe caused by
this suppression of information is guaranteed to follow.
“e peasants have no bread!”
“Well, then let them eat cake.”
(Suppressed information: “If they are starving, you are in big trouble,
YourMajesty!”)
A little participative problem solving could have spared a few leaders’
heads!
Not all program situations, of course, lend themselves to getting the
whole team together and making a decision. But important matters make
the collaborative eort very worthwhile. It is highly advisable, for impor-
tant decisions, to gather all the aected people and work to the best solu-
tion. But such consensus is not possible, or ...