Expanding the Field of Organizational Perception:How Conscious Leadership Turns Cognitive Contraction into a Catalyst for Transformation
In today’s organizations—constantly exposed to environmental turbulence and ongoing uncertainty—one of the less recognized yet deeply consequential phenomena is collective perceptual contraction: a state in which the organization’s attentional system shifts from a wide and exploratory mode to a narrowed, protective, and low-engagement one. This shift is usually gradual, sedimenting within the behavioral and cognitive…