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- The Irrationality of Sacrifice In Satisficing
One of the greatest recognitions about organizational decision-making is Nobel Laureate, Herbert Simon‘s notion of “satisficing”. Satisficing is the maximizing of multiple divergent inputs toward a goal based on a weighting of divergent parts. While the end product is rarely ideal from the perspective of any discrete participant’s perspective, its measure of utility is in [...]
- The Present Necessity for Kindness
When despair, fear, exhaustion and external answers beyond the encouragement to “keep on keeping on” are all: when the terror of occupational “redundancy” strips one’s sense of personal contribution, of meaning to others- what is left? The harsh formula of winner-loser is clear: this is no tv game show proclaiming, you are the weakest link: [...]
- Too Loose in Place of Too Tight
Attending a recent networking meeting of C-level executives, I was struck by an unaddressed cultural disconnect between presenters’ assumptions and the worlds from which attendees had come. Addressing “how to” aspects of job search, the recruitment and career advisement professionals uniformly advocated the use of social networking. Future jobs, they said, would come not from [...]
- Clarifying an “Adrenaline Withdrawal”
A senior financial executive, between projects, wondered whether his changed behavior— reflected in difficulty staying motivated in searching for new projects, social withdrawl, and too much time spent sleeping— might be the result of adrenaline withdrawl. Prior to downsizing, he’d always gravitated to challenging and active corporate situations. A brief chat with a consulting psychologist [...]
