Rewarding difficult questions (Senge)
December 27th, 2007 | Published in Education, Quotes, Truth
School trains us never to admit that we do not know the answer, and most corporations reinforce that lesson by rewarding the people who excel in advocating their views, not inquiring into complex issues. (When was the last time someone was rewarded in your organization for raising difficult questions about the company’s current policies rather than solving urgent problems?)
–Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization (1990), p. 25