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Quotes from Social Psychology of Organizing — Karl E. Weick

1936–2026 United States

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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.

Social Psychology of Organizing (1979)

Experience is the consequence of activity. The manager literally wades into the swarm of "events" that surround him and actively tries to unrandomize them and impose some order: The manager acts physically in the environment, attends to some of it, ignores most of it, talks to other people about what they see and are doing.

Social Psychology of Organizing (1979)

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