The common factor to all these appearances is that something will be attained, through the process itself: and now we perceive that Becoming has been aiming at nothing, and has achieved nothing. Hence the disillusionment in regard to a so-called purpose in existence, as a cause of Nihilism; whether this be in respect of a very definite purpose, or generalised into the recognition that all the hypotheses are false which have hitherto been offered as to the object of life, and which relate to the whole of “Evolution” (Man no longer an assistant in, let alone culmination of, the evolutionary process). Nietzche (1844-1900)
SWOT
- Framework for conducting strategic analysis
- Evaluate Internal Capabilities: Strength & Weakness
- Asses External Environment – Threats & Opportunities
- Translate assessment into a set of strategic priorities, blunting critical threats, and pursue high-potential opportunity
- These are inputs to more extensive strategic plans
Nihilism will manifest itself as a psychological condition, in the second place, when a man has fixed a totality, a systematisation, even an organisation in and behind all phenomena so that the soul thirsting for respect and admiration will wallow in the general idea of the highest ruling and administrative power( if it be the soul of a logician, the sequence of consequences and perfect reasoning will suffice to conciliate everything). Nietzche (1844-1900)
A kind of unity, some form of “monosim”: and as a result of this belief man becomes obsessed by a feeling of profound relativity and dependence in the presence of an All which is infinitely superior to him, a sort of divinity. “The general good exact the surrender of the individual …” but lo, there is no such general good! At the bottom, man loses the belief in his own worth when no infinitely precious entity manifests itself through him – that is to say, he conceived such an All, inorder to be able to believe in his own worth. Nietzche (1844-1900)
Assessment Questions
- If required to develop new skills, is learning and development in place?
- What goals does the organization actually seem to be pursuing?
- Are we using specified performance metrics for day-to-day decisions?
- Has mission, vision, and strategy been pursued energetically? why not?
- If implementation requires teamwork and cross-functional integration, are people acting as teams and collaborating?
- Is our overall pattern of decisions consistent with a defined direction?
- What people are doing, not saying.
- Pinpoint root problems – formulations/implementation
Nihilism, as a psychological condition, has yet a third and last form. Admitting these two points of view that no purpose can be assigned to Becoming and that no great entity rules behind all Becoming, in which the individual may completely lose himself as in an element of superior value; there still remains the subterfuge which would consist in condemning this whole world of Becoming as an illusion, and in discovering a world which would lie beyond it, and would be a real world. The moment, however, that man perceives that this world has been devised only for the purpose of meeting certain psychological needs and that he has no right whatsoever to it, the final form of Nihilism comes into being, which comprises a denial of a metaphysical world, and which forbids itself all belief in a real world. From this standpoint, the reality of Becoming is the only reality that is admitted: all bypaths to back-worlds are abandoned – but this world is no longer endured, although no one wishes to disown it. Nietzche (1844-1900)