Bandwagoning and cargo cult behavior are largely synonymous in practice. Most cases of the former could be described in a trite blog piece by talking about some South Pacific tribe during WW2.
Everyone getting into AI? Well, you see there was a tribe in the South Pacific that saw planes bring supplies... People adopting agile methodologies? Well the planes would bring supplies and they thought if they just copied the behaviours...
People (and people in the aggregate in the form of orgs) try to copy what they see the "winners" doing. In this case, an uncountable number of viral blog posts have somehow used some South Pacifican tribe as the basis for some profound lesson, exponentially yielding another crop of bloggers talking about cargo cults, rinse and repeat.
Everyone getting into AI? Well, you see there was a tribe in the South Pacific that saw planes bring supplies... People adopting agile methodologies? Well the planes would bring supplies and they thought if they just copied the behaviours...
People (and people in the aggregate in the form of orgs) try to copy what they see the "winners" doing. In this case, an uncountable number of viral blog posts have somehow used some South Pacifican tribe as the basis for some profound lesson, exponentially yielding another crop of bloggers talking about cargo cults, rinse and repeat.