Organizations rarely sustain attention that is simultaneously vigilant and pluralist

Evidence

Maintaining an ecosystem of joint attention that is simultaneously vigilant, coherent, attentive and pluralist is without doubt the major challenge to which very few organizations are able to rise over the long-term. The emancipatory distraction discussed above may be able to help us fail less often in this difficult squaring of the circle. — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 344

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘lack of cohesion vs. excess of unanimity’ collapse dynamic connects to Janis’s groupthink and to network echo-chamber critique. — connects to: Organizations are not merely the extended arm of a power-holder; Endangered organizations widen memberships but never cede control of their domains. — Robert B. McCalla, NATO’s persistence after the cold war, 78

Broader Connections

• Organizations are not merely the extended arm of a power-holder #expands (0.78)