The “crabs in a barrel” or “crab theory” is a metaphor to describe the tendency of whenever someone gets ahead, others from their community try to pull them right back down again.
Part 2 of Bias Interrupted: Creating Inclusion for Real and for Good, Joan C. Williams.
Stem Cell Mindset Ants Reinvent as They Age
“A natural disaster always strikes when the last one is forgotten.” – Japanese Proverb Peppered […]
We welcome the author of The Human Element: Overcoming the Resistance That Awaits New Ideas David Schonthal
Organisations were designed for steady environments and excel when situations are steady and predictable. Our business environment, our world today, is anything but steady and predictable. Established organisations excel at processes and procedures. They are organised for pristine exploitation (execution), not exploratory search.
If you look at the image, it takes only a small effort to see the contours of a Dalmatian sniffing the ground. However, here is the point, without the previously stored higher-level concept “dog”, if we were only to use “the parts”, we would see only a meaningless pattern of white and black dots. We would focus on the parts and miss the big picture.
To promote organisational autophagy, we must embrace experimentation, jettison jaded pieces of junk organizational DNA, selectively regenerate dormant cells and reinvent, regenerate and renew in permanence.
Part 2 of this extended episode with Eric Maisel, the author of “The Magic of Sleep Thinking: How to Solve Problems, Reduce Stress, and Increase Creativity While You Sleep”
The Magic of Sleep Thinking: How to Solve Problems, Reduce Stress, and Increase Creativity While You Sleep, Eric Maisel