Generalists, people with moderately strong attachments to many ideas, should be hard to interrupt, and once interrupted, should have weaker, shorter negative reactions since they have alternative paths to realize their plans. Specialists, people with stronger attachments to fewer ideas,… — Karl E. Weick Copy Share Image
A small win is a concrete, complete, implemented outcome of moderate importance. By itself, one small win may seem unimportant. A series of wins… — Karl E. Weick Copy Share Image
The real trick in highly reliable systems is somehow to achieve simultaneous centralization and decentralization. — Karl E. Weick Copy Share Image
Your beliefs are cause maps that you impose on the world, after which you 'see' what you have already imposed. — Karl E. Weick Copy Share Image
Being naive simply means that we reject received wisdom that something is a problem. We are always naive relative to some definition of the… — Karl E. Weick Copy Share Image
If people have multiple identities and deal with multiple realities, why should we expect them to be ontological purists? — Karl E. Weick Copy Share Image
Specifically, I would suggest that the effective organization is garrulous, clumsy, superstitious, hypocritical, monstrous, octopoid, wandering, and grouchy. — Karl E. Weick Copy Share Image
Managers construct, rearrange, single out, and demolish many 'objective' features of their surroundings. When people act they unrandomize variables, insert vestiges of orderliness, and… — Karl E. Weick Copy Share Image
Generalists, people with moderately strong attachments to many ideas, should be hard to interrupt, and once interrupted, should have weaker, shorter negative reactions since… — Karl E. Weick Copy Share Image
