Effort Justification

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

Category: Cognition

Foundational Lexiconvaluing what was hard
Executive Parlancelabor-value attribution
Scholarly Discoursecognitive dissonance resolution
Babel ZenithIKEA Effect
Origin: Behavioral Economics

Etymology & Meaning

Overvaluing things you helped create, regardless of actual value.

In the Boardroom

Defending the internal tool you built over a better external option.

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