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Reference

Karl E. Weick, Kathleen M. Sutcliffe, David Obstfeld, (2005) Organizing and the Process of Sensemaking. Organization Science 16(4):409-421. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1050.0133

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Welcome to Revise and Resubmit – Weekend Classics! 🎙️✨

Some ideas arrive neat. Some arrive messy. Some arrive like a storm of stray facts and half-finished thoughts… and then, slowly, they become a story. 🌪️➡️📖

Today’s classic is all about that moment when the chaos becomes a narrative, when noise becomes pattern, when “What on earth is happening?” turns into “Ah… so this is what we’re in.” 🔍🧠

We’re diving into “Organizing and the Process of Sensemaking” by Karl E. Weick, Kathleen M. Sutcliffe, and David Obstfeld, published in Organization Science, a prestigious FT50 journal, and brought to the world by INFORMS back on August 1, 2005. 🏛️📚

This isn’t just another theory paper; it’s a blueprint for how people talk organizations into existence.

• It shows how we turn raw, unsettling events into words, labels, and stories that let us move, decide, and coordinate. 🧩🗣️

• It reminds us that sensemaking is not a side-show to organizing—it is the main act, the place where identity, action, and meaning collide and recombine. 🎭⚙️

Some sentences are long, wandering like a hallway filled with murmuring voices. Some are short. Like a gasp. 😮
Together, they explain how small conversations, tiny interpretations, and fleeting impressions quietly build the giant structures we call organizations, institutions, even society itself. 🧱🏢🌍

So tonight, as we walk through flux, identity, emotion, and the fragile narratives that hold our organized worlds together, ask yourself:
when the world feels ambiguous and unfinished, what story are you helping to write—and who are you becoming as you make sense of it? 🤔✨

🙏 Huge thanks to Karl E. Weick, Kathleen M. Sutcliffe, and David Obstfeld for this enduring classic and for reshaping how we think about organizing and meaning.

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Ready to press play on how organizations are talked into existence—one act of sensemaking at a time? 🎙️🔥