Impact Trust • Working glossary
Cognitive constraints / cognitive limits
The inability of existing institutions to process the scale and interconnectedness of current challenges – they literally can’t think fast or broadly enough.
Details
Context introduced
Resonant for anyone who’s worked in a large organisation; names something people experience but rarely articulate. “Institutional processing limits” is slightly clearer.
Source
Dark Matter Labs, institutional theory
Source / First Appears In
Signal Spotting TDT session
Authors
Impact Trust team
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