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The HiPPO

Tom Geraghty · Power

Examines the HiPPO effect — Highest Paid Person's Opinion — as a specific instance of authority bias suppressing better information. Shows how positional status can override expertise, even in casual interactions, with a CEO story as a concrete illustration.

Connected concepts (8)

• Typologies of Power
• Reducing Power Gradients
• Watermelon Effect
• Barriers to PS
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• Open Secrets & Half-Baked Ideas
• STREAM
• Status and Cockpit Dynamics: A Review and Empirical Study (paper)