Archive for June 2008
Organizational Behavior and Organizational Design II
*Notes on “Organizational Behavior and Organizational Design” lectures, taught by Prof. dr hab. Piotr Płoszajski, Warsaw School of Economics. First part here.*
In the past: The big eats the small.
Nowadays: The fast eats the slow.The environment is changing extremely fast, but do we change with the same speed? Or better, should we? (or we should give it some time- new ideas/ theories are usually not successful from the very beginning)
Now people have more time to learn (increased life expectancy)
How to overcome the resistance of change?
Adaptivity: ability to forget things
There are different levels of leadership- it`s not always what to do; it could be- where to start from.
Middle managements will be no longer needed
New Economy: starts with technology and end with trust
Self correcting power as result of higher level of communication
“Swarm” design
/ The response of 10000 fishes at a change in the environment is two times less than the time of a single fish response /
Intelligent control appears as un-control or freedom
Un-intelligent control appears as external domination. (Lao Tzu)If something becomes obvious to us, we don`t questioning it anymore. It becomes invisible, we stop thinking of it.
We should change the cognitive assumptions, not only the knowledge.
Are human-beings rational? (only to a certain extent )
If smth out from the things we have used to believed happens to not be true, that means that probably today we also believe in smth that`s not true, but we just don`t know it yet.
Two major approaches to behaviour change- external (changing the person’s mind) and internal (affecting the surrounding environment).
Lewin’s freeze phases- here and here. (the first result I found in the web)
Emotional= stop being rational.
Management creativity and imagination consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought
There won`t be a third part, because today was our last lecture. That was for sure one of the best courses I have had for 3 years in the university 
