The other extreme would also be fantastic. Clarity, honesty, candour are qualities in short supply in our day to day management. It would be healthy to be able to say that some hypotheses about human behaviour, or assumptions about employee engagement, or an approach to leadership, are ‘not even wrong’. And ‘not even wrong’ means it’s not even worth saying how bad it is. His impatience gave us the freedom to call something that is truly bad, not even wrong. Somehow, good to bad was just too small a distance for Pauli. I suppose at the other extreme, there is the ‘beyond extraordinarily good’. It’s not bad thinking, its not even wrong! I love the concept and I love the extension of the spectrum, good to bad. Consistently attributed to physicist Wolfgang Pauli, who had no time for sloppy thinking, ‘not even wrong’ has become a category in its own right.
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