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You reject good ideas because you did not create them.
The 'not-invented-here' bias causes people to devalue external solutions in favor of internal ones.
Individuals and teams often show a preference for their own suboptimal solutions over superior external ones. The ego-investment in your own process blinds you to the effectiveness of alternatives.
Your ownership of an idea is often mistaken for its quality.
Where this comes from
- Study
- Katz and Allen, 1982, Not Invented Here Bias
- What the check found
- The claim is a well-established characterization of the NIH syndrome described by Katz and Allen, though the cited paper is titled 'Investigating the Not Invented Here (NIH) Syndrome'.
- Confidence
- Solid, with limits
Related
One of these every day, and every one names the study it came from. When a finding is contested, it says so.