Organizational anti-pattern
Thursday, June 23, 2011
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- Analysis paralysis: Devoting disproportionate effort to the analysis phase of a project
- Cash cow: A profitable legacy product that often leads to complacency about new products
- Design by committee: The result of having many contributors to a design, but no unifying vision
- Escalation of commitment: Failing to revoke a decision when it proves wrong
- Management by perkele: Authoritarian style of management with no tolerance of dissent
- Matrix Management: Unfocused organizational structure that results in divided loyalties and lack of direction
- Moral hazard: Insulating a decision-maker from the consequences of his or her decision
- Mushroom management: Keeping employees uninformed and misinformed (kept in the dark and fed manure), let to stew, and finally canned.
- Stovepipe or Silos: A structure that supports mostly up-down flow of data but inhibits cross organizational communication
- Vendor lock-in: Making a system excessively dependent on an externally supplied component
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