What really happens in these situations, however, is the proliferation of chaos. In response to the uncertainty “out there,” the busy worker bees inside the organization work more frantically, thus increasing the chaos “in there.” Then, as a means of reducing the amount of uncertainty, people dig deeper into the weeds, analyzing more and scrutinizing everything in hopes of making the “best” decision. What results is analysis paralysis: seemingly endless meetings that adjourn with no one left in any better a position than the one they were in when they started.
