Professions often try to position themselves as both new and old at the same time: We have a long tradition, but we created something new based on it!
Bowker's "Lest we Remember" on how nursing is positions as both a new and an old profession, by "organizational forgetting": https://ics.uci.edu/~gbowker/forget.html
The "garbage can model" is an influential theory for organizational decision making
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_can_model
The original paper came with fortran code for a simulation. Does anyone know an explorable-explaination style javascript implementation of that? (Or is bored and wants to write one?)
“in contemporary organizations, the costs of being indecisive frequently outweigh the costs of being wrong.”
(Karl Weick, Sensemaking in Organizations, Ch.: Sensemaking as Expecting)
"How Are Soft Skills Soft?"
https://charleslambdin.com/2020/03/20/how-are-soft-skills-soft/
"They’re “soft,” as in, “not a hammer.”"
Jan D
Nicolas Bencherki
Maria Riegler
Christof Brandtner