Sublime

Back in 1976, two economists, Michael Jensen and William Meckling, published a paper that has been committed to memory by those in the first camp. The paper, which has been one of the most widely cited of the past three decades, focused on a problem known as agency theory, or incentive theory: why don’t managers always behave in a way that is in th

It has been normative for most adults—even many who are well educated and trained—to function in this third order of consciousness that I have described elsewhere as “Authority-bound and dependent,” and others have described as “received knowledge.” 5 In this mode of knowing, people think and work primarily within an interpersonal, tribal frame, an

The biologist Rudolf Magnus (1873–1927) demonstrated that the head–neck–torso relationship was the Zentralapparat (central mechanism) in orienting an animal in its environment.

Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge encompasses four elements and includes fourteen points of management and seven deadly diseases of management. These four elements of Profound Knowledge are: 1. A Theory of Knowledge: How do we know what we believe we know? 2. A Theory of Variation: How do we analyze and understand what we know? 3. A Theory of P