Persistent problems often seem intractable because of the frame through which we view them. A fixed point of view on an issue may lead us to struggle because we are trying to solve the wrong problem.”
Elizabeth Heichler, 2022 MIT Sloan Management Review. Summer 2022 v 63(4) P.1
“Reality is too big for our little heads. So we use simplifications of reality to deal with it, impressions of reality: ideas, concepts, frames, models, forms, and theories. These help to explain the reality we encounter. Hence, our choice is not between them, let’s say, theory and reality, so much as between alternative theories of reality. Logically, we choose the theory that is most useful under the circumstances – not the best, but the best available – no matter how imperfect it may be.”
Henry Mintzberg (2023) Understanding Organizations…Finally! P.119