Critical rationalism in organisations

I wonder how one can introduce critical rationalism thinking in organisations, where we already have a distribution of authority/ power.

You can learn an individual to think critically, but can you learn an organisation to do so ?

Eli Goldratt put a lot of thought into how to introduce ideas to businesses. It was e.g. a theme of his letters:

https://www.toc-goldratt.com/content/Elis-letters

One thing he talked about was the need to introduce ideas to all of top management together, to avoid divisions within the company.

BTW, I don’t think CR was actually developed enough to be ready to introduce for running businesses, whereas TOC was. For example, CR says we learn by critical discussion but doesn’t give a bunch of clear guidance on how to do that or what critical discussions should be like. CR focuses more on abstract philosophy and less on concrete implementations.

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