First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 21, 2014

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Koestler Simon Blog Books 75

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

The term “holarchy” made its debut in Ghost in the Machine , a analysis of the human brain and its failings penned by Arthur Koestler in 1967. Think of it as management operating system 3.0. It’s not a new concept. Think: a total entity greater than the sum of its parts.

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Koestler Company Restructuring Travel 19

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Hungarian author (and Drucker contemporary) Arthur Koestler considered this competence the true source of creativity. Personalities such as Drucker and Borges seemed to have encyclopedic memories. Yet this alone was not enough; the real skill is the ability to make bisociative connections.

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Drucker Koestler Open-book Learning-by-Doing 8