Who Loves Ya, Baby?
In his classic novel Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut explains how the world is divided into two types of social organizations: the karass and the granfalloon. A karass is a spontaneously forming group, joined by unpredictable links, that actually gets stuff done. A granfalloon, on the other hand, is a “false karass,” a bureaucratic structure that looks like a team but is “meaningless in terms of … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Steven Johnson | Source: Discover | Subject: Organizational Behavior