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Save this story Save this story __ More than 25 years ago, a young organizational psychologist named Karl Weick published a highly original and nearly impenetrable book called The Social Psychology of Organizing. Alone in the wilderness, Weick promoted the adaptive advantages of chaotic systems, distributed authority, and "sensemaking." "Stamp out utility!" and "Complicate yourself!" were among his battle cries. Weick's approach to his own work has been novel: while most social scientists massage colorless statistical data, Weick hangs out with the Utrecht Jazz Orchestra to study how organizat

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