Becoming Critical with a ‘middle C’.
You are strongly encouraged to engage with the following excellent materials.
These are all exceptionally powerful learning resources – make some quiet time available with your favourite drink and enjoy – have a pencil and paper to hand.
You can be well informed and understand many founding conceptions very quickly by engaging with the materials – it is vital that aspiring senior leaders are alert to these ‘idea-ologies’.
The audio and video links are available below.
A Panopto video link to Peter giving an introductory lecture on the Epistemic and Intellectualist Fallacies
Full video with slides
Disposition Towards Knowledge & Evidence Podcast
A Lenney-Brigham-Watton discussion of 3 famous articles in this arena – Bennis & O’Toole: “How Business Schools lost their way“, Sumantra Ghoshal’s exceptional article: “Bad Management Theories are Destroying Good Management Practices“, and the academic paper that got me on the Practical Wisdom road – by my friend Hari Tsoukas: “The Emergence of Aristotelian Themes in Organization Studies“
A wonderful short monologue about the failure of the social ‘sciences’, its origins , and our addiction to theory
(BBC Point of View broadcast)
What is this thing called science?
Discussion of the Scientific Method
(BBC In Our Time)
Science in the Time of Covid-19
What the pandemic revealed about science
(BBC Sounds – Analysis)
“If you torture data long enough, it will confess to anything”
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How Science has been Corrupted
An exceptional interview from Unherd with philosopher Matthew B. Crawford. It weaves together a tapestry of serious concerns about the growing authoritarianism of expertise and the political co-opting of science for justification – a MUST watch!
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