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I’m certainly not saying that lying is virtuous or to be encouraged, or that a world in which not telling the truth is both reasonably common and tolerated is in any way a perfect world. I’m just saying that the evidence is quite clear that leaders (and, for that matter, other people) frequently don’t tell the truth and face few to no consequences for doing so. And this fact is something worth understanding, rather than continuing to pretend that leaders are the paragons of truthfulness that they are so often portrayed to be.
Leadership BS
Jeffrey Pfeffer
The generalist, then, has certain categories of thought that—because of their general nature—are not going to fail him completely in the study of any new field. He has special words in his vocabulary, words such as stability, behavior, state space, structure, regulation, noise, and adaptation, which he can relate to the words of the specialist. If he is wise, he will refrain from saying, "Oh, that's nothing but a line of behavior in a two-dimensional state space." Instead, he will make the translation internally and then surprise the specialist with the "sharp questions" he is able to ask.
An Introduction to General Systems Thinking
Gerald Weinberg
The politics of networks mean that disagreements, misunderstandings, and disparate agendas can complicate even seemingly simple partnerships.
View From the Top
D. Michael Lindsay, M. G. Hager
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