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Psychological Contract: Unspoken Trust between People & Institutions
An implicit understanding between individuals and organisations about mutual expectations and obligations — shaping motivation, trust, and perceived fairness beyond formal contracts.
Diffusion of Innovations
Explains how new ideas or technologies move from invention to adoption through social systems, showing why innovators lead, laggards follow, and networks determine momentum.
Incentive Distortion: Reward vs Value
Misaligned incentives cause systems to optimise for metrics instead of meaning. When rewards outpace real value, performance looks strong but purpose erodes.
Seeing Like a State: The Dangers of Simplifying Complexity
A critique of how states simplify complex realities into rigid rule systems, revealing the dangers of legibility when it erases local knowledge and lived practice.
Normalization of Deviance: When risk becomes routine
When small rule-bending becomes routine, organizations gradually accept higher risks as normal, eroding safeguards until failure becomes inevitable.
High Reliability Organisation (HRO) theory: Mindfulness in the Face of Risk
HRO theory explains how organisations in high-risk domains sustain safety by cultivating continuous mindfulness, error sensitivity, and resilience against drift.