Karl E. Weick Quotes

The real trick in highly reliable systems is somehow to achieve simultaneous centralization and decentralization.

Specifically, I would suggest that the effective organization is garrulous, clumsy, superstitious, hypocritical, monstrous, octopoid, wandering, and grouchy.

Your beliefs are cause maps that you impose on the world, after which you 'see' what you have already imposed.

Simply pushing harder within the old boundaries will not do.

Rank and expertise do not necessarily coincide.

If people have multiple identities and deal with multiple realities, why should we expect them to be ontological purists?