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Climate Change and Evidence-based Management [Part II]: The Case for Practical Wisdom
This blog is a continuation of last week’s in which I suggested that in managing complex systems with unstable parameters one cannot rely just on data-based predictions, one has to depend more on judgement-based anticipations: In The Rational Optimist Matt … Continue reading
Posted in General | Tagged analytical philosophy, Aristotle, BCG, confirmation bias, Drucker Forum, Enlightenment, evidence-based, Honda, intrinsic motivation, intuition, Isaiah Berlin, judgement, logical positivism, Matt Ridley, Mr. Spock, Oxford, paradigm shift, phronesis, practical wisdom, rational optimist, rationality, Richard Pascale, The New Ecology of Leadership | Comments Off on Climate Change and Evidence-based Management [Part II]: The Case for Practical WisdomObjectivity: The View from Everywhere
I have been working on revisions to my Drucker Challenge Essay so that a version of it can be published in Management Research Review later this year. The reviewers felt that I needed to deal with the implications for management … Continue reading
Posted in Change, General | Tagged being, Cartesian Management, deliberate practice, Drucker, ecological rationality, embodied cognition, Hubert Dreyfus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Mr. Spock, objectivity, phenomenology, Plato, stages of learning, Star Trek, West Churchman | 1 CommentBad Apples or Bad Barrels? An ecological perspective on ethics in management
In my last two blogs I have suggested that many of our institutions have lost their sense of purpose, as their means to success have steadily become ends-in-themselves. This loss of purpose has been accompanied by a steady increase in … Continue reading
Posted in Change, General | Tagged bad apples, Douglas McGregor, ecological rationality, evildoers, figure and ground, George W. Bush, management ethics, MBA Oath, Mr. Spock, rational model, Theory X | Comments Off on Bad Apples or Bad Barrels? An ecological perspective on ethics in managementPractical Wisdom: Homer 1 Spock 0
In his book Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, the psychologist who won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2002, describes two great, fictional systems of human thought (fictional because they don’t actually exist as separate systems). System 1 is … Continue reading
Posted in Change | Tagged Cass Sunstein, ecological rationality, Homer Simpson, John Dewey, Kahneman, left wing libertarian, Mr. Spock, Nudge, power, practical wisdom, Richard Thaler | Comments Off on Practical Wisdom: Homer 1 Spock 0Scribblings from the Garret
Welcome to my blog, the launching of my new website, and the pre-launch publicity for my forthcoming book, The New Ecology of Leadership: Business Mastery in a Chaotic World. In his January/February article in Foreign Affairs, The Future of History: … Continue reading
Posted in General | Tagged Anglo-Saxon capitalism, ecology, fractal, Francis Fukuyama, Great Stagnation, Homer Simpson, leadership, middle class, Mr. Spock, narrative of the future, political science, principles, social science | Comments Off on Scribblings from the Garret-
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