Leaping Frog Consulting Services

  • Home
  • About Us
  • Our Work
    • Driving Organisational Change and Development
    • HR Systems & Talent Strategy
    • Learning Journeys
    • Leadership & Life Coaching
  • How we Work
  • Knowledge
    • Impressions from Time
    • The Frogs Mind
  • Contact Us
  • Home
  • The Frogs Mind
  • The Mind of the Organization-2: Neurosis Psychosis

The Mind of the Organization-2: Neurosis Psychosis

by admin / Wednesday, 30 October 2024 / Published in The Frogs Mind
The-Mind-of-the-Organization-2

In psychology, Neurosis and Psychosis reveal two fundamental aspects of mental health: insight and awareness. Neurosis is characterized by the presence of “Insight” – an individual’s ability to recognize that something is wrong at the mental level —an awareness that prompts them to seek help and solutions. This insight reflects a functional mind that understands the problem and takes steps toward resolving it. In contrast, Psychosis, on the contrary, is the absence of “insight” and lacks this awareness. Even when the signs of emotional disorders are apparent to others, psychotic individuals deny or fail to recognize the issue. They remain stuck in the problem, never engaging the mind’s potential to seek help or change. This behavior, akin to an ostrich burying its head in the sand, is what I often refer to as the “ostrich syndrome”—ignoring reality, hoping it will disappear.

The same can be said of organizations. Organizations with an aware, functioning “mind” are like Neurotic individuals—they can recognize their challenges and take swift action to address them. They engage their collective awareness to identify problems and are willing to undergo conscious diagnosis and seek appropriate treatment, whether through internal mechanisms or external expertise. These organizations, aware of their internal dynamics, are proactive in seeking cures. Their organizational mind is alert, reflective, and deliberate, allowing them to continuously improve, grow, and evolve.

In contrast, Psychotic organizations fail to engage their organizational mind fully. They operate in a state of denial, unaware of or unwilling to acknowledge the problems that hinder their progress. These organizations don’t use their mind—their capacity for self-reflection, insight, and understanding—to diagnose what’s wrong. As a result, they go into a vicious cycle of recreating the same issues for themselves. Such organizations become stagnant. Or, at best, they experience some growth, but the underlying issues remain untreated, eventually turning chronic. Over time, they start to live with the disease, which gradually eats away at the organization, weakening its foundation and long-term viability.

Organizations thrive when their mind is actively engaged, constantly assessing, reflecting, and adapting. This’ organizational mind’ is like a compass, guiding the organization through the turbulent waters of business. Without this awareness, the organization becomes like a body without a mind—mechanically functioning but missing the essential insight needed to evolve. Whether neurotic or psychotic, the presence or absence of this organizational mind ultimately determines whether the organization will grow or stagnate, succeed or fail. Recognizing problems is the first step to solving them, and it’s the mind of the organization that makes this possible.

  • Tweet

What you can read next

Employee Engagement
Rethinking Gossip
HR-Systems
Bhagavan & Leadership 3: Jnana (Knowledge)
What is Equity?
What is Equity?

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Recent Posts

  • The-Mind-of-the-Organization-4

    The Mind of the Organization-4: The Power of Manifestation

    Picture: https://shorturl.at/Z2imK The mind, pa...
  • The-Mind-of-the-Organization-3

    The Mind of the Organization-3: Fun

    The idea that organizations have a “mind&...
  • The-Mind-of-the-Organization

    The Mind of the Organization-1: The Structure and Function

    Picture Credit: https://shorturl.at/gFKnq A liv...
  • Power-of-Role

    The Power of Role: Lessons from the Stanford Prison Experiment

    Picture: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct1...
  • Two-Marshmallows-Are-Better

    Why Two Marshmallows Are Better Than One

    Picture Credit: https://www.minigrey-blog.com/t...

Categories

  • Impressions from Time
  • The Frogs Mind

FOLLOW US

About

We are a young consulting organisation. Founded in 2022, we are backed up by a collective, specialised and diverse experience of over thousands of years in the “people and organisations” domain. Rather than consultants, we call ourselves enablers and co-creators. That’s what best defines us.

QUICK LINK

  • Home
  • About Us
  • Our Work
  • How we Work
  • Knowledge
  • Contact Us

SUBSCRIBE US

Subscription Form

CONTACT

+91-981-070-4726 | comm@leapingfrog.in

© Leaping Frog Consulting Services | All rights reserved.

TOP