If people have multiple identities and deal with multiple realities, why should we expect them to be ontological purists?

The real trick in highly reliable systems is somehow to achieve simultaneous centralization and decentralization.

If people have multiple identities and deal with multiple realities, why should we expect them to be ontological purists?

Simply pushing harder within the old boundaries will not do.

Managers construct, rearrange, single out, and demolish many 'objective' features of their surroundings. When people act they unrandomize variables, insert vestiges of orderliness, and literally create their own constraints.

Specifically, I would suggest that the effective organization is garrulous, clumsy, superstitious, hypocritical, monstrous, octopoid, wandering, and grouchy.

A small win is a concrete, complete, implemented outcome of moderate importance. By itself, one small win may seem unimportant. A series of wins at small but significant tasks, however, reveals a pattern that may attract allies, deter opponents, and lower resistance to subsequent proposals. Small wins are controllable opportunities that produce visible results.