cognitive dissonance

3 Psychological Barriers to Leadership Buy-in

One battle those in the enterprise social space continue to fight is the battle for leadership buy-in. I was reminded of this by two articles I read recently, one by Andrew Gerkens in his recent “The real reasons senior leaders won’t use your ESN” and the other by Rich Millington of Feverbee who wrote in

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Cognitive Dissonance and the Denial of Social/Informal Learning

In a previous post I explored the idea that a form of learned helplessness is to blame for executives and L&D’s inability to accept and embrace social & informal learning in their organizations.  Simply put, my argument was that after years of “control” by formal learning (public education, higher education and training organizations) there may

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