Where individual idea recognition and information gathering is not valued, top-down corporations give members an incentive to hide information and dissemble in order to keep the bar for performance low.
One of the most troubling characteristics of those who make a living doing arms control and other feats of diplomatic derring-do is their tendency to dissemble about the true nature of things.
Some JPMorgan executives may have chosen the latter and attempted to dissemble and insulate themselves from blame for the trading collapse, according to a story earlier this month in the New York Times by Ben Protess and Azam Ahmed.
No, I was never impressed, he was too spidery, too weak in his conversation, and badly composed in his dress, careless of his appearance, but for all that I thought quite civilized in having so little gift to dissemble or pretend what he did not feel.