Beware of Hippos in Your Company

In most businesses, responsibility for the most critical decisions is generally left to the highest-paid person’s opinion — the Hippo effect.

Andrew Constable MBA
3 min readMay 5, 2021

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But what is a HIPPO Effect?

HiPPO is an acronym for the highest-paid person’s opinion” or the highest-paid person in the office.”…

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Andrew Constable MBA

Innovation & OKR Consultant for Medium-Sized Businesses ⟫ Partner, Author & Lecturer ⟫