Donald Schön

Person · Open Library

Works

3

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Group

Origin

Germany

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Upper Echelons: The Organization as a Reflection of Its Top Managers

   · 1984 · cited 33,969x

2. The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)

   · 1992 · cited 29,125x

3. The M06 suite of density functionals for main group thermochemistry, thermochemical kinetics, noncovalent interactions, excited states, and transition elements: two new functionals and systematic testing of four M06-class functionals and 12 other functionals

   · 2007 · cited 28,957x

4. An Algorithm for Least-Squares Estimation of Nonlinear Parameters

   · 1963 · cited 24,444x

5. The central role of the propensity score in observational studies for causal effects

   · 1983 · cited 24,132x

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Quotes

• “Belief in the stable state serves primarily to protect us from apprehension of the threats inherent in change. Belief in stability is a means of maintaining stability, or at any rate the illusion of stability. But the most threatening situations are those that confront us with uncertainty, and by ‘uncertainty’, I don’t mean risk, which is a probability ratio which we all know how to handle, particularly those who are managers of industry. We can deal with risk.”
• “Old questions are not answered—they only go out of fashion.”
• “A social system does not move smoothly from one state of its culture to another... Something old must come apart in order for something new to come together. But for individuals within the system, there is no clear grasp of the next stable state - only a clear picture of the one to be lost Hence, the coming apart carries uncertainty and anguish for the members of the system since it puts at risk the basis for self-identity that the system had provided.”

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