Richard T. Pascale
‘Social engineering’ is a mechanistic logic that traces its rootstock to Isaac Newton and has been propagated aggressively by twentieth-century microeconomic theory. This worldview holds that businesses and organizational processes are reducible to a kind of physics. Unfortunately, social systems in general, and businesses in particular, are phenomena of organized complexity. There are definite limits to what physics (and its pragmatic cousin, engineering) can accomplish. … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Author: Richard T. Pascale | Source: ManagementFirst | Subject: Organizational Behavior