Thoughts

When you commit, you exclude. On Lucky Hans, Spencer-Brown’s form of distinction, and why honeybee colonies are wise organizations.

Satisficing, time pressure, and binary thinking: Why the first available answer is rarely the best – and doing nothing is sometimes the wiser choice.

Organizations discuss trivial matters at length and wave through complex ones. Why bikeshedding is not a flaw but a functional necessity – and how consulting merely shifts the concealment.

Organizations confuse activity with effectiveness. Why measures rarely solve what they claim to solve – and how inherent logic, routine, and power interests shape every intervention.

What counts as a problem is not determined by reality but by the claimmaker. How contingency, path dependency, and narrative formulas determine which problems become visible in organizations.

Goals in organizations are not rational fixed points. They are expressions of power dynamics – and goal-setting processes are the stage on which these dynamics are negotiated.