Friday, October 19, 2007

Dr Nord
Karl E. Weick - World of language
cognitive dissonance - action causing thought- people retrospectively make sense of what they do when students agree with teacher to avoid conflict regardless of truth - mastermind sense making never know for sure

Contextual rationality - fire story - wisdom and methods to deal with situations - sense making as social structure - cosmologically moment where no one really knows - and how do you manage?

Bystander Effect - take guess from others to avoid it as long as others avoid it

John Sterman - all models are wrong but they are useful

"Dropping your tools" - letting go of what we know and react as new agents - tension between knowing and allowing
"hold your tools loosely" - creating empty space between tension and creation

Word become object that we believe in and become things while originally they were only names created for things that don't exist.

"not in our town" -PBS community Self Organization
"better Child syndrome" Weick changing perspective with new data

Introductory essay Weick
improvisation - opposite of stipulation not total chaos some stipulation - some construct to start with - decisions not the issue but managing decisions

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