A small win is a concrete, complete, implemented outcome of moderate importance. By itself, one small win may seem unimportant. A series of wins at small but significant tasks, however, reveals a pattern that may attract allies, deter opponents, and lower resistance to subsequent proposals. Small wins are controllable opportunities that produce visible results.
The real trick in highly reliable systems is somehow to achieve simultaneous centralization and decentralization. - Karl E. Weick
The real trick in highly reliable systems is somehow to achieve simultaneous centralization and decentralization.
- Karl E. Weick
Managers construct, rearrange, single out, and demolish many 'objective' features of their surroundings. When people act they unrandomize variables, … - Karl E. Weick
Managers construct, rearrange, single out, and demolish many 'objective' features of their surroundings. When people act they unrandomize variables, …
Rank and expertise do not necessarily coincide. - Karl E. Weick
Rank and expertise do not necessarily coincide.
Specifically, I would suggest that the effective organization is garrulous, clumsy, superstitious, hypocritical, monstrous, octopoid, wandering, and … - Karl E. Weick
Specifically, I would suggest that the effective organization is garrulous, clumsy, superstitious, hypocritical, monstrous, octopoid, wandering, and …
Your beliefs are cause maps that you impose on the world, after which you 'see' what you have already imposed. - Karl E. Weick
Your beliefs are cause maps that you impose on the world, after which you 'see' what you have already imposed.
Being naive simply means that we reject received wisdom that something is a problem. We are always naive relative to some definition of the situation… - Karl E. Weick
Being naive simply means that we reject received wisdom that something is a problem. We are always naive relative to some definition of the situation…
A small win is a concrete, complete, implemented outcome of moderate importance. By itself, one small win may seem unimportant. A series of wins at s… - Karl E. Weick
A small win is a concrete, complete, implemented outcome of moderate importance. By itself, one small win may seem unimportant. A series of wins at s…
Generalists, people with moderately strong attachments to many ideas, should be hard to interrupt, and once interrupted, should have weaker, shorter … - Karl E. Weick
Generalists, people with moderately strong attachments to many ideas, should be hard to interrupt, and once interrupted, should have weaker, shorter …
If people have multiple identities and deal with multiple realities, why should we expect them to be ontological purists? - Karl E. Weick
If people have multiple identities and deal with multiple realities, why should we expect them to be ontological purists?
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