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Organizational Traps: Leadership, Culture, Organizational Design

This book delves into the complexities of organizational structures, leadership styles, and cultural dynamics, analyzing the factors that can lead to inefficiencies and failures within an organization. more

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Chris Argyris
Chris Argyris

Chris Argyris was a renowned scholar and psychologist known for his groundbreaking work in the fields of organizational learning and conflict resolution. His work has had a profound impact on management practices and leadership development. more

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“What has soul in it differs from what has not, in that the former displays life. Now this word has more than one sense, and provided any one alone of these is found in a thing we say that thing is living. Living, that is, may mean thinking or perception or local movement and rest, or movement in the sense of nutrition, decay and growth. Hence we think of plants also as living, for they are observed to possess in themselves an originative power through which they increase or decrease in all spatial directions.”

“The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only one of these is present, we say that the thing is alive, if, for instance, there is intellect or perception or spatial movement and rest or indeed movement connected with nourishment and growth and decay. It is for this reason that all the plants are also held to be alive . . .”

“But nothing is yet clear on the subject of the intellect and the contemplative faculty. However, it seems to be another kind of soul, and this alone admits of being separated, as that which is eternal from that which is perishable, while it is clear from these remarks that the other parts of the soul are not separable, as some assert them to be, though it is obvious that they are conceptually distinct.”