The process of organising (=Organisation) determines how the future should be handled: Does the organisation utilise the possible scope for action and try to shape the future by taking risks, or does it tolerate a possible future result by bearing a danger and trusting itself to find an answer, should the need arise? The guiding …
Situation-oriented handling specifies that one can deviate from general rules. Organisations need the possibility to tolerate the contravening of rules. Each case is different, otherwise one could, to a certain extent, calculate what is to be done. Organisations constantly utilise the possibility of accepting exceptions. Here it is conspicuous that this acceptance can be explicit …
Following a rule means applying a general instruction to a situation. Without such instructions organisations would not exist, in fact, they would not even form in the first place. Rules create expectation certainty and with it, the possibility to coordinate actions and communication. The cohesion of organisations rests substantially on a system of rules which …
The process of organising (=Organisation) also determines its form by having to, on the one hand, set clear, binding and general rules, and on the other hand, having due regard, situationally and specifically, to the current circumstances. The guiding process which seeks an answer is this: “Is a general rule applied or is an exception …
Adapting in the sense of the guiding process ‘Handling the Past’, means an organisation makes decisions whenever new things should happen. This can relate to all other guiding processes. In every decision, it is also decided simultaneously whether the new is introduced (or whether the old is retained). Organisations can occupy themselves more radically with …
When something is retained, the decision goes in favour of not learning! This decision pole of the guiding process dealing with the past is a necessary condition for every form of dynamic stability. If everything changes at once, this is called dissolution. No system is allowed to change everything (=learning), because otherwise it would not …
In the guiding process handling the past, the action of organising (=organisation) requires a decision regarding the question: “Should a decision made in the past be preserved, or should it be intelligently adapted?” In this guiding process, an organisation grapples with the past (patterns, habits, decision criteria, structures) in the face of a new alternative. …
The psychological guiding process resonance can derail in two ways and therefore become dysfunctional. There can be too much or too little resonance, i.e. a strong reaction to an inner stimulus or an environmental event, or none or too little resonance. There are people who react so strongly to the stimulus of fear that they …
If the psyche reacted to everything which the environment makes available, it would immediately collapse from overload. Just like any other system, human response is highly selective, thus most things are ignored. But in order to react at all and to bring movement, inner receptiveness is required. Just like we would not be able to …
The differentiation between conscious and unconscious has a very long tradition. Here we present it in a modified form. We assume that each person must decide to reduce complexity, which consciousness events he wishes to perceive and which ones should remain undetected. This decision-making framework is partly pre-determined (usually we do not consciously occupy ourselves …