Leadership and the Culture of Simulation.
So management science today is about leaders producing a view of “external reality” from the raw material of a kind of “management television” — the output of the literary industrial complex — to create reality distortion fields within which everybody else must function.
Venkatesh Rao • Towards Management Metamodernism
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As philosopher Jonathan Rowson often says, first souls, then systems, then society (we presently have that very often backwards). "We believe the world’s major challenges stem from a crisis of perception and imagination, and the failure of political culture to honour the fullness of reality. We are fascinated by the myriad ways in which our tacitly... See more
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The Insurrection Will Be Live Streamed: Notes Toward a Theory of Digitization - The Convivial Society
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human beings cannot ever know what is “really real.” We participate more deeply than we imagine in shaping the world that we perceive.
Art Kleiner • The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies for Building a Learning Organization
Through the power of television, I knew that lions were large, proud creatures that roared and lived in Africa. But one day my father took me to see the big cats at the Bronx Zoo. I could barely relate the coarse, smelly creatures in front of me—lying docile and panting in their cages while flies buzzed around their heads—to what I had witnessed fr
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When there are many conflicting desires, and conflicting theories about how they can be met, the consequences are indecision and myopic vacillation among various half measures. Creating effective strategy in such situations is extremely difficult or impossible. The central challenge is not the outside world but the conflicting mix of values and pur
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