Overcome organizational blindness

Organizations are operatively closed and cognitively open to their environment What are the implications for the management? Since an organization’s environment typically has a cumulatively higher complexity than can be displayed within its own organizational structure, organizations need to reduce complexity by selecting relevant environments, thereby allowing them to remain stable and active systems. It is…

The Law of Old Men – Foresighted Self-Renewal

According to the „law of old men”, top managers in their 50s make decisions that are in favour of their positions in the company, but may conflict the company’s future. Therefore, necessary change processes are argued away by the resistance from the colleagues. This is what is observed for years by Peter Noli, Professor of…