Acknowledgments.

PART I INTRODUCTION.

1. Organized Impermanence: An Overview.

2. Mundane Poetics: Searching for Wisdom in Organizational Theory.

3. Faith, Evidence, and Action: Better Guesses in an Unknowable World.

PART II ATTENDING.

4. Managing the Unexpected: Complexity as Distributed Sensemaking.

5. Information Overload Revisited (Kathleen M. Sutcliffe and Karl. E Weick).

6. Organizing for Mindfulness: Eastern Wisdom and Western Knowledge (Karl E. Weick and Ted Putnam).

PART III INTERPRETATION.

7. Making Sense of Blurred Images: Mindful Organizing in Mission STS-107.

8. Organizing and the Process of Sensemaking (Karl E. Weick, Kathleen M. Sutcliffe, and David Obstfeld).

9. Impermanent Systems and Medical Errors: Variety Mitigates Adversity.

PART IV ACTION.

10. Hospitals as Cultures of Entrapment: A Re-analysis of the Bristol Royal Infirmary (Karl E. Weick and Kathleen M. Sutcliffe).

11. Enacting an Environment: The Infrastructure of Organizing.

12. Positive Organizing and Organizational Tragedy.

PART V LEARNING AND CHANGE.

13. Emergent Change as a Universal in Organizations.

14. Drop Your Tools: An Allegory for Organizational Studies.

15. Leadership as the Legitimation of Doubt.

Epilogue.

References.

Index.