„Do you and your executives think straight? Or do you solve problems by ‚intuition‘?“ – thus asks an article published in the economic journal Fortune in 1953. It marks a significant transition in respect to rationality, which at the time is increasingly seen as deeply connected with emotion, motivation, and situationality. Straight thinking no longer seems to be the objective of modern man, but intuitive, creative, “wild” thinking as it is practiced, for instance, in brainstorming sessions. This new kind of rationality is related to the virtues of the emerging figure of the executive manager, whose immediate and creative response to challenges of the market becomes fundamental for postindustrial society. Aiming at a political epistemology of rationality of the mid 20th century, the paper relates these debates to contemporary studies of group constellations and individual cognition in experimental psychology.
Wednesday 16 November 2016
Bernhard Kleeberg gave a paper on 'Do executives think straight?'
„Do you and your executives think straight? Or do you solve problems by ‚intuition‘?“ – thus asks an article published in the economic journal Fortune in 1953. It marks a significant transition in respect to rationality, which at the time is increasingly seen as deeply connected with emotion, motivation, and situationality. Straight thinking no longer seems to be the objective of modern man, but intuitive, creative, “wild” thinking as it is practiced, for instance, in brainstorming sessions. This new kind of rationality is related to the virtues of the emerging figure of the executive manager, whose immediate and creative response to challenges of the market becomes fundamental for postindustrial society. Aiming at a political epistemology of rationality of the mid 20th century, the paper relates these debates to contemporary studies of group constellations and individual cognition in experimental psychology.
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