# Critical rationalism in organisations
**URL:** https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/critical-rationalism-in-organisations/406
**Category:** Other
**Tags:** social-dynamics
**Created:** [November 11, 2021, 8:28pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/critical-rationalism-in-organisations/406 "2021-11-11T20:28:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@B-man](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/B-man)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2021, 8:28pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/critical-rationalism-in-organisations/406/1 "2021-11-11T20:28:44Z")
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 ?
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### Author:  [@Elliot](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Elliot)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2021, 8:53pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/critical-rationalism-in-organisations/406/2 "2021-11-11T20:53:53Z")
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](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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### Author:  [@Elliot](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Elliot)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2021, 9:10pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/critical-rationalism-in-organisations/406/3 "2021-11-11T21:10:46Z")
I moved this to the Other category because it didn’t use a project template.
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