A Prisoner's Dilemma Paper

Senior executives are extremely sensitive to measuring and comparing their performance to their peers. Once progress is reported and made common knowledge to all, using the matrix I invented, a prisoner’s dilemma is invoked: Every senior executive will seek to avoid being blamed for organizational failure and each senior executive know this. As a result, it is now in everyone’s self-interest to take positive action, as the consequences of not doing so has now become too high. This makes collective action inevitable. For under these conditions, even the most entrenched and oppositional senior executive will capitulate and take action—because if they do not, then they run the risk of being the only one left to blame. This is how I ensured that