what do functionally stupid parties generate? Functionally stupid policies.
Harry On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Alain Sepeda <alain.sep...@gmail.com>wrote: > > I have found a review > > http://eight2late.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/a-stupidity-based-theory-of-organisations-a-paper-review/ > an article > > http://www.hcamag.com/the-lighter-side/a-stupiditybased-theory-of-organisations-177391.aspx > > and slides from the author > > http://www.lth.se/fileadmin/indek2013/program/Alvesson_functional_stupidity_scaIEM.pdf > > my corporate culture is absolutely synchronous with what is said, like on > Groupthink. > > About Kuhn paradigm change resistance, it is not applicable to our domain, > except maybe for finance and economics, but I won't name that science. ;-) > > it looks pure bashing, but it is important to understand that when the > opinion of your peers is more important than the reality, then stupidity > rules, and is productive. > > that is also the condition for groupthink... > > I think that with planetary groupthink, multinational network of > stupid-ruled corporations, understanding groupthink dynamics, functional > stupidity is important... > > In France we have a reference book called "les decisions absurdes" (no > need to translate)... > > No relation with latest Swedish radio broadcast, as if there was a > campaign to prevent people to believe in anticipated evidences (Coyaud, > Gary wright, Giancarlo, and few blogs are waking up). Hopefully some Greeks > and Armenian gave hope to them (pfff...) . > > > 2014-05-27 14:54 GMT+02:00 Alain Sepeda <alain.sep...@gmail.com>: > >> After Finance and some other scientific subject, Cold fusion finished to >> persuade me of the importance of Groupthink and similar Cognitive >> Dysfunction in organization and groups >> (like Benabou work >> http://www.princeton.edu/~rbenabou/papers/Groupthink%20IOM%202012_07_02%20BW.pdf). >> >> >> This paper's abstract seems to cover that subject >> >> http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/enhanced/doi/10.1111/j.1467-6486.2012.01072.x/ >> >> >>
