52. Fear Is Easy Fear is an easy tool, but it rarely builds a resilient organization. That’s because fear is most useful as a tool for compliance: “The best way to avoid being fired is to do what I say.” All the boss needs to do is fire a few people to make that really clear. The problem is that doing what the boss says doesn’t scale very well, and it doesn’t work in a complex, fast-changing world. All of us are smarter than any of us. In any field where skills are valuable and switching jobs is possible, the employees you need the most have options. That’s why creating a culture of fear and
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