Workplace Culture Questions

Quote from Hugh Prather: "Most of the conversations I hear are carried on as if there really were such a thing as an answer and as if the people present were actually in possession of it." Shouldn't we all adopt some sort of "busy" pretext, display fake fronts intended to suggest determined aims are being seriously pursued? Wouldn't everyone believe that we are "busy" people -- intent upon accomplishment important to ourselves and others? Isn't there some conflict between concepts of "empowerment" and of "involvement" -- of "delegation" and of "taking ownership" (directing, guiding -- dictating, really)? Consider whether these are not confusing opposites -- messages easily regurgitated: mere facile managerial sloganeering.... (Uncertainty, easily detected, is usually condemned.) Doesn't everyone read Dilbert? And who remembers "Ready....fire....aim!"