MGMT 1000 Lecture : #4 - CSR and Social Entrepreneurship.docx
Document Summary
People break situations into separate parts and search for step-by-step explanations where one thing leads to another. If rules of daily life are clear and simple. , then linear thinking works all the time! Linear thinking works when everything is perfectly defined and predictable: systemic approaches needed to consider potential interactions/consequences. Organizations cut overhead costs to get bottom line back in shape. Narrow linear thinking leads to many increased costs and make negative consequences. Result from political and other pressures forcing people to produce rapid results through inappropriate means: oversimplifying: blindfolded by what we don"t know people try to reduce the complexity; look for easiest solution or get. People see what they learned, what they can handle, what they deem important and what they feel pressured to see and do: ignored side-effects: people fail to think about wider implications. Be aware of the problem and act with sense of broader system, with its multiple loops in mind.