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Nonrational Behavior, Becoming a Student of
To grasp organizational life as it is, read novels (!) and books such as the two discussed immediately above. It is my fervent belief that we will never design rational processes that "overcome" such irregularities—don't bother telling that to a consultant. Hence, we should embrace the real, non-rational, nonlinear world with vigor and glee—and develop enterprise and career strategies accordingly. Part of this process may involve absorbing the likes of How Doctors Think and Judgment under Uncertainty.
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'To grasp organizational life as it is, read novels (!) and books such as the two discussed immediately above.'
Mmmmm ..... Better still in my totally biased opinion read 'Managing My Life’ by Sir Alex Ferguson - Manager of Manchester United. Sir Alex CV is interesting - no formal management training; no business degree; no business school attendance; non-rational thinking much of the time. He manages and leads by common sense, simplicity and focus. Sir Alex is in my opinion the best manager in the UK (possibly the world) for the last 20 years and that includes anyone in business. You only have to look at his record at the head of the greatest football club in the world and the most successful club in Britain for the last 20 years both on and off the field. If Sir Alex had been constricted by rational and logical systems I venture to suggest he would not have been successful.
Posted by Trevor Gay at March 19, 2007 1:21 PM
Totally agree...the world and human nature are what they are. We just need to align things, not talk about disruptive changes etc. It´s like in Nature, when change is done little by little entropy remains constant and exergy is maximized in the process.
Posted by JoaquÃn at March 21, 2007 6:46 AM
"embrace the real, nonrational, nonlinear world with vigor and glee—and develop enterprise and career strategies accordingly."
Yes.
And I have some ideas of how we can learn to do it. Try dipping into my manifesto, "Purposive Drift: making it up as we go along" on ChangThis (www.changethis.com/31.06.PurposiveDrift) and see if it makes any sense to you.
Posted by richard at March 21, 2007 3:13 PM