Posted in Karl Weick, organizational development, phenomenology on Jul 13th, 2008 No Comments »
An organization is a collection of choices looking for problems, issues and feelings looking for decision situations in which they might be aired, solutions looking for issues to which they might be the answer, and decision makers looking for work. [sic] Organizations keep people busy, occasionally entertain them, give them a variety of experiences, keep […]
Posted in Karl Weick, management, organizational development, phenomenology on Jan 18th, 2008 No Comments »
Specifically, I would suggest that the effective organization is garrulous, clumsy, superstitious, hypocritical, monstrous, octopoid, wandering, and grouchy.
Karl Weick
On Re-Punctuating the Problem
in New Perspectives on Organizational Effectiveness; Jossey-Bass 1977
Posted in James Hillman, Karl Weick, management, organizational development on Jan 17th, 2008 No Comments »
Love and power are not opponents; it is our ideas that have constructed them so. — The resolution of this tiresome conflict between power and love requires but one simple test, a move from the singular to the plural. Just add an s. The world is not one world, power is not a single idea, […]
Posted in Karl Weick, management, organizational development on Nov 28th, 2007 No Comments »
If an organization is narrow in the images that it directs toward its own actions, then when it examines what it has said, it will see only bland displays. This means in turn that the organization won’t be able to make much interesting sense of what’s going on or of its place in it. That’s […]
Posted in Karl Weick, management, organizational development, phenomenology on Feb 16th, 2007 No Comments »
If an organization is narrow in the images that it directs toward its own actions, then when it examines what it has said, it will see only bland displays. This means in turn that the organization won’t be able to make much interesting sense of what’s going on or of its place in it. That’s […]
Posted in Henry Mintzberg, Karl Weick, management, organizational development, phenomenology, psychology on Feb 11th, 2007 No Comments »
Several captures from the old web site. Subject: organizational oceanography! Weick and Mintzberg are two of my main guys.
Specifically, I would suggest that the effective organization is garrulous, clumsy, superstitious, hypocritical, monstrous, octopoid, wandering, and grouchy.
Karl Weick
On Re-Punctuating the Problem
in New Perspectives on Organizational Effectiveness; Jossey-Bass 1977
In fact, the real cause of this so-called turbulence […]
Posted in Karl Weick, management, organizational development on Oct 28th, 2006 2 Comments »
Karl Weick is one of my main guys. The Social Psychology of Organizing and Sensemaking In Organizations are deservedly classics but each of his books are terrific. Anyway…in the aftermath of the earlier MAZE THE COURSE post, the following excerpts from an interview Dr. Weick gave in 2003 are timely. Incidentally, he’s speaking here of […]
Posted in Karl Weick, management, organizational development, psychology, sociology on Jun 2nd, 2005 No Comments »
In fleshing out the squareONE links page important thinkers on the periphery of experiential learning theory demand highlighting. Weick, who’s methodology of sensemaking is experiential remains a central influence to my own ‘galumphing,’ (a Weickian term for exploration). His book is an accessible, thought-provoking inquiry. As was the follow-up, .
Henry Mintzberg stands a bit […]
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