Imagine a scientist who wants to observe these attributes of light. If the scientist chooses one experiment, the wave aspect of light is seen. If the scientist chooses another experiment, the particle aspect of light is seen. For example, people are not good or bad, cooperative or competitive, friendly or antagonistic, a team player or an individualist. People are both good and bad, cooperative and competitive, friendly and antagonistic, a team player and an individualist.
Organizations can be ethical and successful, emotional and rational, and orderly and creative.
We choose the aspects of our humanity we display based on our interaction with others and with our environment. The knowledge that no objective reality exists independent of the observer and that the observer brings forth what is observed by the nature of the interaction with reality has major implications for managerial thought. For example, a manager came into a senior management staff meeting visibly agitated. He had just finished a staff meeting and was upset because the members of his staff had not participated. A few weeks later, I observed one of his meetings.