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by aunty_helen 1484 days ago
They’re called business fables, five dysfunctions of a team being a classic, well known, best selling one. It’s a common way of conveying information that might come from several related experiences and built on to drive home meaning.

People don’t like to be deceived to the point they’ll go out of their way to believe a story is true until presented with unrefutable evidence that it’s false. Even then they’ll prefer to believe the original lie. This is called the backfire effect.