Dunning-Kruger Organization

One concept. Four tiers of command. Which do you speak?

Category: Cognition

Foundational Lexiconconfident incompetence
Executive Parlanceinstitutional overconfidence
Scholarly Discoursemetacognitive failure
Babel ZenithOrganizational Dunning-Kruger
Origin: Management Theory

Etymology & Meaning

Organizations that don't know what they don't know.

In the Boardroom

Companies confidently pursuing strategies they don't understand.

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