Mauboussin: Reversible Experiments Help Overcome Managerial Resistance to Change
Michael Mauboussin · #1 Michael Mauboussin: When To Trust Your Gut · Apr 28, 2015 · at 20:03
Investor and author Michael Mauboussin explains how junior employees can persuade senior leadership to adopt improved decision-making processes.
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“Another card to play in that is experimentation. Say, let's try it this way for, you know, this subset or for this period of time. And if it works out great, and if it doesn't work out, we'll revert to what we were doing before. So just, if that's not too costly to do an experiment like that, that's a really also another very useful way to try to approach that challenge.”
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