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Organizational schema: a shared mental model held

Organizational schema: a shared mental model held collectively by members of an organization that determines what the organization perceives, how it interprets events, and what responses it considers, operating as invisible infrastructure

Why This Is a Definition

Genus: shared organizational mental model. Differentia: determines perception/interpretation/response, invisible infrastructure.

Source Lessons

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Organizations run on shared schemas

Every organization operates through shared mental models — collective schemas that determine what the organization perceives, how it interprets information, and what actions it considers possible. These schemas are not written in the org chart or the strategy deck. They live in the heads of the people, and they run the organization more reliably than any policy document.

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