You cannot avoid acting

A vida, do ponto de vista de quem tem a responsabilidade de dirigir:
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"1. You cannot avoid acting. Your actions, including the action of doing nothing, affect the situation and yourself, often in ways that run counter to what you intended.
2. You cannot step back and reflect on your actions. You are thrown on your intuitions and have to deal with whatever comes up as it comes up.
3. The effects of action cannot be predicted. The dynamic nature of social conduct precludes accurate prediction, and rational planning is not much help.
4. You do not have a stable representation of the situation. Patterns may be evident after the fact, but at the time the flow unfolds there is nothing but arbitrary fragments capable of being organized into a host of different patterns or possibly no pattern whatsoever.
5. Every representation is an interpretation. There is no way to settle once and for all that any interpretation is right or wrong, which means an “objective” analysis of that into which one was thrown is out of reach.
6. Language is action. Whenever people say something, they create rather than describe a situation. This means it is impossible to stay detached from whatever emerges unless you say nothing, which is such a strange way to react that the situation is deflected anyway.
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(1) extremely difficult decisions, (2) ambiguous and conflicting information, (3) shifting goals, (4) time pressure, (5) dynamic conditions, (6) complex operational team structures, (7) poor communication, and that (8) every course of action carries significant risk."
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Trechos de Karl Weick retirados de "Managing as Designing".