By The Numbers — Organizational Blindspot
The Power of Disagreement
Underneath: moves the unit of analysis from the individual (as in the original study) to the firm, where the same bias has measurable business consequences.
Organizations that build procedures for disagreement and discussion save lives and are more productive. Executive priorities aren't the same as their employees'.
ENTRIES009
SOURCES009
POLLS002
Checklist Dividend
001
Reduction in deaths after major surgery once teams ran a checklist aloud before the first incision
40% or more
002
Share of major U.S. crew-error airline accidents, 1978 to 1990, in which one pilot failed to challenge the other's error
84%
003
Productivity gain in teams where workers feel safe to disagree
19%
Hierarchy's Body
004
Amount by which leaders' stress-hormone levels run below their subordinates'
0.54standard deviations
005
Reduction in lifespan associated with reaching General Electric's upper ranks
3.9years
The Silence Tax
006
Share of workers who have seen colleagues stay quiet despite disagreeing
Source: Radical Candor survey via CNBC
61.3%
007
Reduction in a worker's pay by the fifth year after their company is acquired
9%
008
Median golden parachute for a departing chief executive in 2022
12.9million dollars
FIRiNG FOR PROFIT
009
Executive bonuses one board approved three weeks after laying off 12,000 workers
46million dollars
Readers & Markets
What happens next, in numbers.
2 polls measuring where opinion sits. Prices and vote shares update in real time.
Reader Polls
02 surveys
Overall, My Current Workplace Is a Psychologically Safe and Healthy Environment to Work In
Source: Ipsos
Support
47%
Oppose
27%
Employees Should Be Allowed to Freely Express Their Political Opinions at Work
Source: Morning Consult
Support
52%
Oppose
39%
Originating headlines: PMC/NIH.