1/ Client of mine has a theory that all orgs have phantom heads: they act like long-gone founders are still there. This is a great insight.
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It's worth considering the points made by Simon and Wilson about organizational formation and momentum; I think they full explain this.
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REviewing my notes, it's more selznick, but yet, Herbert Simon talks about org. culture and imposition of cultural values on employees
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and Selznick, Leadership in Adminstration pg 38: Chapter on "Routine and Critical Decisions" section on "The Concept of Org. Character"
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And James Q. Wilson talks about it a ton in his book "Bureaucracy", which draws on many of the ideas in Selznick and Simon
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