The tendency of employees and managers to identify themselves with their “group,” (i.e. their department or area of specialization) is a engrained instinct that a lot of us grapple with on a daily basis. A big part of systems thinking, of quality thinking, is seeing the big picture – to
be able to analyze and integrate the parts and the whole.
For some reason this comic has me thinking of strategic vision and shared fate and questions of alignment and congruence.
Investigations of a Dog 
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