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The Generative Properties Of Richness
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In this article, the authors discuss the definition of richness and what it meant to zoologist and Harvard professor Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, and use a forest fire disaster that occurred in 1949 at the Mann Gulch to illustrate the importance of richness.Abstract:
The article discusses the definition of richness and what it meant to zoologist and Harvard professor Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz. Agassiz taught his students to see the richness in objects or activities. The author uses a forest fire disaster that occurred in 1949 at the Mann Gulch to illustrate the importance of richness. There were so many factors and complex interactions that contributed to the fire that an analysis of the situation results in some lessons that can apply to other observable important moments.read more
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The Collapse of Sensemaking in Organizations: The Mann Gulch Disaster
TL;DR: The KatzNewcomb lecture as mentioned in this paper celebrated the life of Rensis Likert, the founding director of the Institute for Social Relations, who was born in 1903, which meant this lecture also celebrated their 90th birthdays.
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The Collapse of Sensemaking in Organizations: The Mann Gulch Disaster
TL;DR: The KatzNewcomb lecture as mentioned in this paper celebrated the life of Rensis Likert, the founding director of the Institute for Social Relations, who was born in 1903, which meant this lecture also celebrated their 90th birthdays.
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The Negotiated Order of Organizational Reliability
TL;DR: In this article, a case study of one organization seeking very high reliability in its performance (a nuclear power plant) is offered to demonstrate a contrary point of view, that reliability can best be achieved not through attempts at organizational invariance but through the management of fluctuations in important organizational relationships and practices.
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Sitting in the Hot Seat: Leaders and Teams for Critical Incident Management
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After the Fact
Clifford Geertz,Fred Saberhagen +1 more
TL;DR: Geertz's book as mentioned in this paper is an elegant summation of one of the most remarkable careers in anthropology, and it is at the same time an eloquent statement of the purposes and possibilities of anthropology's interpretive powers.