This is a follow-up post to Psychology Gone Wild | A New Organisational Tyranny?, examining how we need to stop blaming individuals for organisational messes and instead examine the systemic issues that cause bad or anxious behaviours.
Thanks to Chris Ngo, Futurist Thinker for Humanity Preservation, for posting the question that instigated this response.
NB: For any recruiters reading this, I will get to recruitment in the 2nd half of the post.
The Return of Systems Theory
There's an increasingly significant re-emergence of ideas around systems theory (a school of thought about organisations that briefly sparked into life in the 1950s). When you hear people talking about systems leadership, systems thinking, design thinking, complexity theory et al (listed in no order of preference or importance), you are seeing evidence of this re-emergence.