Agile Transformation
On Top of Mount Stupid
Entire organizations also suffer from the Dunning-Kruger effect and are stuck in transformation at the peak of Mount Stupid.
Organizations are made up of people and people tend to have many cognitive biases. One of these is the Dunning-Kruger effect ( Wikipedia), first described by the two social psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger in an article published in 1999. In essence, the Dunning-Kruger Effect states that less competent people tend to clearly overestimate themselves and consequently are not able to correctly assess the superior skills of truly competent people.
But when 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. In logical reasoning, in parenting, in management, problem solving, the skills you use to produce the right answer are exactly the same skills you use to evaluate the answer.
