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You’re Not As Effective As You Think
You’re Not As Effective As You Think
Statistically, it’s very likely that you overrate the effectiveness of your organisation.
The above chart shows two distributions.
The blue curve – the Rightshifting curve – shows the distribution of knowledge-work organisations vs effectiveness. Note the median is at 1.
The red curve shows how organisations typically rate themselves re: effectiveness.
The Dunning-Kruger Effect
The Dunning-Kruger effect says that unskilled individuals will rate themselves and their abilities higher than is accurate. I have regularly seen this happen in groups – such as companies and the like – too.
“If you’re incompetent, you can’t know you’re incompetent. […] the skills you need to produce a right answer are exactly the skills you need to recognize what a right answer is.”
~David Dunning
The key consequence to this is that these kinds of unskilled groups believe they are doing much better than, in fact, they are – and thus…
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