Before the experiment began, the tappers were asked how often they believed that the listeners would name the songs correctly. On average, tappers expected listeners to get it right about half the time. In the end, however, listeners guessed only 3 of 120 songs tapped out, or 2.5 percent.
The tappers were astounded. The song was so clear in their minds; how could the listeners not “hear” it in their taps?"
Today's New York Time presents a remarkable piece which, as many
remarkable pieces seem to do, states the obvious. Innovative minds
don't think alike.
This brings into question the many, exhausting, expensive
efforts to conform knowledge-worker knowledge to a certain defined
standard. As I've commented before, most of the work we do these
days relies upon tacit knowledge, that kind of knowledge we might
not even be aware we have. It's different for you and for me and
for that other guy over there. When we manage to get to thinking on
the same page, we're stuck on that page. This, I claim, is one
reason we see every bank stumbling on the same sub-prime mortgage
crisis (every one had a model that told them exactly when to sell,
but, interestingly, not whom to sell to), and why every company
that hires only PMPed project managers find their projects
compromised in exactly the same old way. (Yawn.)
Here's the link to the article.
