The Technology Of Foolishness Summary

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Comprehending the argument of ‘The Technology of Foolishness’ maybe challenging; nevertheless, I will attempt to decipher the moral of the story and see the relevance of values of an individual, organizations and the societies of the world; ultimately, explain the conclusion about contemporary theories of decision making. March spoke about various ways of understanding decision making, which includes the following: choice and rationality, the problem of goals, sensible foolishness, play and reason and finally, intelligence and foolishness; most of which includes a variety of stages. When discussing choice and rationality, the author explained his concept of choice as “a focus for interpretation and guiding human behavior” (March, 1971, p. 255). Humans are free to roam and make their own choices, especially in Western Civilization. Having the ability to make personal choices is good, since it opened the doors for increase knowledge from experimentation and intuition; hence, exposing the human minds to evaluate …show more content…

It’s the foundation of human thinking; except, the unwillingness of mankind, that assist in downgrading their important values; as a result, the distraction of the twenty-first has caused man to ignore the foundation and set personal goals. Establishing personal goals are phenomenal; however, organizations and society place pressure on him to “act in the name of goals, keep his goals consistent, his actions be oriented to his goals and we ask that a social system amalgamate individual goals into collective goal” (March, 1971, p. 256). But is the pressure worth it? And what about understanding the origin of goals; essentially, leading to further confusion between choice behavior versus goal development; ultimately, leading to three classic justifications: “both are independent, choice is never satisfied, and changing goals is so intractable in a normative theory of choice that nothing can be said about it” (March, 1971, p.

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