Organization and Individual
We found the
following excerpt and compilation with the head line
Organization
and Individual from one of Giten's articles on the blog
of Ilango Nadar, Deputy
Head, Systems Design at Tata Interactive
Systems,
Bombay Area, India
Thursday, September 4, 2008
"There are
not many things that the different approaches of modern psychology
agree about, but there is one thing that they all agree about: that
people in groups and organizations, simply put, become more stupid.
Individually people are more intelligent, because they have to take
more responsibility. But in a group, people do not have to take the
same amount of responsibility. People in groups and organizations
tend to get caught up in the need of the ego to create hierarchies
of power, status, positions, roles, norms and conformity.
All organizations are more or less dysfunctional. The sign of a dysfunctional group is that the members of the group play three roles and positions: aggressor, denier and victim. It is always easier to follow the group without reflection or awareness, than to trust your own heart, to trust your own intelligence, truth, wisdom and creativity. It is not always easy to follow your own heart, but it always leads your right."
Swami Dhyan Giten
All organizations are more or less dysfunctional. The sign of a dysfunctional group is that the members of the group play three roles and positions: aggressor, denier and victim. It is always easier to follow the group without reflection or awareness, than to trust your own heart, to trust your own intelligence, truth, wisdom and creativity. It is not always easy to follow your own heart, but it always leads your right."
Swami Dhyan Giten