Lessons of the Bystander Effect for management

Submitted by Barbara Ballard
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Management and Leadership

In the latest TITIT, Mark reported experiencing the Bystander Effect for himself, in which people were potentially letting another human die rather than helping. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect also includes several examples.

My management lesson: "Somebody call 911" doesn't generate results. "Tom, call 911" does. It's one of the lessons I synthesized on my own before becoming a MT devotee a few years ago.

- Barbara 

 

 

 

Submitted by Martin Culbert on Wednesday November 13th, 2013 10:52 am

Mark,
Thank you for acting. I really have to wonder how we have survived this long as a species.
Martin