# Sensemaking, Organizing, and Surpassing (Weick 2020) - Weekend Classics

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Podcast: [Revise and Resubmit - The Mayukh Show](https://stenobird.com/podcast/revise-and-resubmit-the-mayukh-show-7034621)
Published: 2026-05-30T23:35:00+00:00
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English Podcast Start at 00:00:00 Bengali Podcast Start at 00:38:46 Hindi Podcast Start at 01:04:00 Danish Podcast Start at 01:26:32 Reference Weick, K.E. (2020), Sensemaking, Organizing, and Surpassing: A Handoff*. J. Manage. Stud., 57: 1420-1431. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12617 Tribute by Dave Snowden (Another pioneer of SenseMaking and complexity science) https://thecynefin.co/karl-weick-1936-2026/ Youtube Channel ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@weekendresearcher⁠ Podcast Website https://mayukhmukhopadhyay.com/reviseandresubmit/ 🎙️📚 Welcome to Revise and Resubmit — this is Weekend Classics . 🌙 Tonight’s episode begins with remembrance. We pay our deepest respect to Professor Karl E. Weick , who passed away on 21 May 2026 at the age of 89 . 🌹 His work transformed how scholars understood organizations, uncertainty, and the fragile process through which human beings create meaning from chaos. In this episode, we revisit “Sensemaking, Organizing, and Surpassing: A Handoff,” published in the Journal of Management Studies in November 2020. Some papers explain theories. This one explains people. Karl Weick reminds us that life is rarely understood while it is being lived. People move through confusion first. Meaning comes later. Organizations, therefore, are not simply structures or systems. They are ongoing conversations where individuals attempt to explain uncertainty to themselves and to one another. The essay reflects on how human beings organize experience into stories that feel stable enough to survive another day. Weick explores how familiarity shapes judgment, how assumptions quietly become reality, and how unconscious fears influence collective behavior inside institutions. There is a quiet sadness beneath these ideas. Because the modern world moves faster than our a…

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