I was put in mind of this by a post about hotel management deciding to search hotel rooms daily during DEFCON.
Something that isn't discussed in the Wikipedia article is that there are times when, from a leadership perspective, it is in fact better to do something, even something useless and performative, than to be seen doing nothing in response to a perceived problem.
A number of upper management and government decisions make much more sense if you consider that perceived inaction can be costlier to leadership than unproductive or counterproductive expenditure of resources.
Something that isn't discussed in the Wikipedia article is that there are times when, from a leadership perspective, it is in fact better to do something, even something useless and performative, than to be seen doing nothing in response to a perceived problem.
A number of upper management and government decisions make much more sense if you consider that perceived inaction can be costlier to leadership than unproductive or counterproductive expenditure of resources.