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People Stuck on an Escalator (Decision Making Skills No. 8)
Saturday، 25 October 2025

People Stuck on an Escalator (Decision Making Skills No. 8)

“Learned Helplessness” can be a powerful drag on an organization's performance. But there are ways to combat it.
Baby Click Me One More Time
Market signals can be rather noisy and firms may over react or miss the signal entirely.

Mason Carpenter


Market signals can be rather noisy and firms may over react or miss the signal entirely.
In a similar way, the resource based view draws on causal ambiguity as an isolating mechanism — firms may misread noisy observations and imitate the wrong thing.
This clip illustrates that problem as a firm ramps up to meet demand triggered by unusual activity on its web page.
Baby Click Me One More Time

Pierre! Come take a look this!

Mr. Daniels! Mr. Daniels! Look at this!

What is this?!

The numbers, they keep getting bigger and bigger.

The clicks are off the charts.

Yeah!

Kyoshi! To Heart! we are back!

Yes, Sir!

Let's do it this way!

More, more, tracking.

More ships, more ships!

I need more trees.

More trees?

I'll get you more trees.

Hey, Pay more attention to this order!

Everything is focused on fulfilling this order!
Just on time!

He really likes the sound of the click.

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References
Carpenter, M. (2013). Adobe - Click, Baby, Click. carpenterstrategytoolbox.com.Link.