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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,…

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Generalists, people with moderately strong attachments to many ideas, should be hard to interrupt, and once interrupted, should have weaker, shorter negative…
Specifically, I would suggest that the effective organization is garrulous, clumsy, superstitious, hypocritical, monstrous, octopoid, wandering, and grouchy.
Managers construct, rearrange, single out, and demolish many 'objective' features of their surroundings. When people act they unrandomize variables, insert vestiges of…
Being naive simply means that we reject received wisdom that something is a problem. We are always naive relative to some definition…
Your beliefs are cause maps that you impose on the world, after which you 'see' what you have already imposed.

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