Weick

Judas points out that Steve Weick is really skewing the numbers on the poll he uses to "prove" that a third of all RPGnow customers are 'pirates.'

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In his book, Weick and co-author Kathleen Sutcliffe study what they call "high reliability organizations," and find that leaders best prepared to pick up on future crises are preoccupied with failures rather than successes, are reluctant to simplify matters, and are extremely sensitive to their operations, among other things.

TSA debacle: How media controversies keep tripping up Obama Jena McGregor 2010

In his book, Weick and co-author Kathleen Sutcliffe study what they call "high reliability organizations," and find that leaders best prepared to pick up on future crises are preoccupied with failures rather than successes, are reluctant to simplify matters, and are extremely sensitive to their operations, among other things.

TSA debacle: How media controversies keep tripping up Obama Jena McGregor 2010

Weick, Gilfillan, and Keith weren't studying music; they were studying organizations.

Archive 2007-02-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007

And Weick et al can hear the implications loud and clear: The present data, however, suggest that extended direct exposure to the work of art itself can reduce, and even eliminate, the impact of attested credibility.

Archive 2007-02-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007

Weick and Gilfillan (1971) suggested another reason why innovation is resisted — a reason that bears directly on the nature of evaluation in the arts.

Reading Session Matthew Guerrieri 2007

Weick still does, focusing, in part, on how organizations use self-imposed limitations on the interpretation of information to reduce equivocality, that is, when one fact can be considered to have multiple meanings.

Archive 2007-02-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007

Back in 1973, Karl Weick, David Gilfillan, and Thomas Keith published a curious study in the journal Sociometry called "The Effect of Composer Credibility on Orchestra Performance" (from which the above quote is taken).

Reading Session Matthew Guerrieri 2007

And Weick et al can hear the implications loud and clear: The present data, however, suggest that extended direct exposure to the work of art itself can reduce, and even eliminate, the impact of attested credibility.

Reading Session Matthew Guerrieri 2007

Back in 1973, Karl Weick, David Gilfillan, and Thomas Keith published a curious study in the journal Sociometry called "The Effect of Composer Credibility on Orchestra Performance" (from which the above quote is taken).

Archive 2007-02-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007