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Managers construct, rearrange, single out, and demolish many 'objective' features of their surroundings. When people act they unrandomize variables, insert vestiges of orderliness, and literally create their own constraints.
Karl E. Weick
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Karl E. Weick
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: October 31
Psychologist
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Warsaw
Indiana
Karl Edward Weick
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