1/ Been analyzing management language to use for #breakingsmart S2 and something jumped out at me...
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2/ We talk about organizations in structuralist ways (eg "platform corp")
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3/ But we talk about automation/machines in functionalist ways (eg "can an AI drive a car")
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4/ And we talk about human pieces of the puzzle in behaviorist ways (incentives, motives, values, learning)
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5/ This is extraordinarily schizophrenic... a big chunk of the confusion I'm trying to sort out in 'future of orgs' thinking is due to this
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6/ As the history of early psychology (1900-1920 or so) shows, you need all 3 lenses on all 3 pieces to get anywhere. Full 3x3, not diag
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