Middle and upper management are mostly concerned about risk, because the environment they are in rewards being “done” more than trying something that could have a bigger payoff.
That is, the downside of accepting risk tends to outweigh the upside of achieving a goal at the cost of running over schedule. In that environment.
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Middle and upper management are mostly concerned about risk, because the environment they are in rewards being “done” more than trying something that could have a bigger payoff.
That is, the downside of accepting risk tends to outweigh the upside of achieving a goal at the cost of running over schedule. In that environment.
Very much this; not least because, having organizational power, they can manipulate the situation to evade the downside. As discussed in the classic Gervais Principle essay: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/10/14/the-gervais-principle-...