Tag Archives: Abilene Paradox

In the same way healthcare systems demonstrate increasingly rapid evolution, we’ve seen similar impressive changes in HIT. Twenty years ago, few had even heard of an EHR. Today you would be hard pressed to find a healthcare worker who has never heard the term. Yet technology change of any magnitude … Read More →

Forty years ago, management literature referred to a story demonstrating how organizations “frequently take actions in contradiction to what they really want to do and therefore defeat the very purposes they are trying to achieve.” That story is now known as the “Abilene Paradox.” The story describes a Texas family … Read More →