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 new paradigms, organizational development, web media on Jun 17th, 2008 No Comments »
C. Otto Scharmer speaks here of Theory U. It’s a terrific book even if it contains too many non-nutritional exhortations. Coming out of the various vectors of constructivism, integralism, and, modern adult learning theory, both Theory U. and the earlier Presence (Senge, Scharmer, et al.,) both demand and deserve attention and study.
Posted in management, new paradigms, organizational development, transformative learning on Jan 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
This is one of my favorite idea bites. I’ve truncated a long section of McSwain’s work to make it bite-sized. The paper it was taken from, A Transformational Theory of Organizations, is one of my all-time favorites. It actually served to put me on the hunt for new paradigms in organizational theorizing.
The baseline goal that […]
Posted in Henry Mintzberg, management, organizational development on Jan 19th, 2008 No Comments »
In fact, the real cause of this so-called turbulence may be planning itself, which by imposing formalized procedures on organizations has desensitized them and made them vulnerable to unexpected changes. — Put it more boldly, if your organization has formal plans but no vision, and if you then try to control your future so rigidly […]
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 management, organizational development, phenomenology on Dec 14th, 2007 No Comments »
Workers must no longer be considered as cost factors to be “compressed” or “rationalized” but as allies to be won. — …managers must forfeit their long-cherished and, at times abusive, privileges to move toward a new form of organization centered on the human being as well as on a flexible and creative approach. — This […]
Posted in management, organizational development on Dec 2nd, 2007 No Comments »
The stereotypes are of “real masculinity” being equated with domination, conquest, and control -and thus also with “heroic” male violence. And such sterotypes are essential for the maintenance of a top-down model of social organization.— She [Sally Helgesen] shows how the workplaces run by these women tend to be more like “webs of inclusion” rather […]
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 management, organizational development on Nov 12th, 2007 No Comments »
Though staff may indeed be as valuable as bosses make out, corporate structures and attitudes are seldom sufficiently flexible to accommodate and profit from individuality. — It is no longer possible either to create or continue to sustain a monolithic culture in any large organization. Nor is it better to succumb to the tyranny of […]
Posted in James G. March, organizational development, psychology on Apr 10th, 2007 No Comments »
James G. March, the eminent interdisciplinary scholar of organizations, was interviewed in The Harvard Review of Business in October. For me, March and Karl Wieck are, respectively, the Monk and Coltrane of organizational behavior research. Well, they’re much more than researchers.
Here’s an excerpt.
You’ve written about the importance of a “technology of foolishness.” Could you […]
Posted in organizational development on Mar 19th, 2007 No Comments »
When is organizational problem solving in name only?
Let me sketch a curious case I was apprised of recently. I’ll put it very generally and suggest this conundrum is very common.
Basically there are two aspects. First, there is a problem that is always being solved. In other words, it is a perennial problem. Second, up the […]
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 organizational development, phenomenology, psychology on Feb 7th, 2007 No Comments »
One of my favorites unearthed from the old web site.
The baseline goal that that the organization or any human system must pursue is the development of the person within it; other matters, other goals, must come after. — …the primary axiological commitment of transformational theory is not dominantly rational or utilitarian in motivation or behavior.— […]
Posted in fun as a value, organizational development, web media on Dec 21st, 2006 1 Comment »
I’m always on the lookout for stuff that makes the connection between fun, feeling good, and anything that goes better with feeling better. (Of course I do work for a maven (and innovator) of positive psychology in the organizational behavior field but I’ve been tracking this stuff for years previous to making the professional match […]
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 management, organizational development, pdf:article on Sep 16th, 2006 No Comments »
In synch with yesterday’s post, I note today Dr. Kets De Vries’s article, Reaping the Whirlwind:Managing Creative People (pdf:2000; INSEAD) is available on the web.
Posted in analytic psychology, management, organizational development, psychology on Sep 15th, 2006 No Comments »
Steve Hardy at Creative Generalist has done a valuable capture from Caterina, in turn captured from a presentation by Intuit’s Keoki Andrus. Moreover, comments to the post of origin elaborate a fuller itemization. Here’s two of the lists compiled by Steve.
Seven Deadly Deficiencies
1. Contempt for others
2. Obsession with self
3. Commitment dysfunction
4. Inflexible mindset
5. No productive […]
Posted in communications, management, new paradigms, organizational development on Jul 28th, 2006 No Comments »
Patti Anklam, as is her marvelous way, weaves valuable threads leading to thought provoking places.
“Virtual” is a funny word for me right now, as I’m deep into writing Net Work, and the distinction virtual works for online communities as well as distributed communities, but there’s a difference and I’ve not yet found the right pair […]
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