BRAIN DRAIN

Knowledge goes wrong at work in three basic ways. Here’s how to spot them.

Sometimes useful knowledge never reaches the work. Sometimes it gets there, but distorted. And sometimes the team loses the ability to notice that anything is wrong. Pick the one that sounds most familiar. Each section shows the patterns to look for, how to check whether they are happening, and what you can try.

Someone knew, and it never got to the work.LOSS

Useful knowledge never arrives.

Look for loss
It looked right, and it wasn’t.CORRUPTION

Useful knowledge arrives, but gets distorted.

Look for corruption
Everything seemed fine until it wasn’t.BLINDNESS

Nobody can tell anything is wrong.

Look for blindness
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