Review: Ignorance is not always bliss — and not always bad — a new book argues
” explores the myriad ways in which “not-knowing” affects our lives, sometimes for good, sometimes for ill. In 15 chapters, he touches on “a network of related ideas,” including “obstacles, forgetting, secrecy, denial, uncertainty, prejudice, misunderstanding and credulity.”
“Organizational ignorance” is defined as “the effect of the uneven distribution of knowledge within an organization.” That is, the workers on the shop floor and the bosses in their executive suites know different things about a company, and when they don’t share their respective “knowledges,” as is often the case, the company as a whole suffers.
The Enlightenment political philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau observed that “the whole earth is covered by nations of whom we only know the names, yet we presume to make judgments about the human race.” In this regard, not much has changed since the 18th century.
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