Category: Quotables

• Quotables

  Experts: the servants, not masters, of a democracy

  Expertise is necessary, and it’s not going away. Unless we return it to a healthy role in public policy, we’re going to have stupider and less productive arguments every day. So here, presented without modesty or political sensitivity, are some things to think about when engaging with experts in their…

  January 26, 2014
• Disruption Quotables

  Andrew Krepinevich on why people resist change

  “People naturally resist changes that make them or their group less important. The result is that organizations tend to discount information that suggests that major change is necessary. An organization in effect uses its ‘immune system’ to isolate or expel individuals or ideas that challenge the prevailing, more institutionally comfortable…

  January 14, 2014