However, far from laboratory settings, this phenomenon appears to be a precise metaphor for a reality faced today by many institutions and managers alike. When management sinks into the routine of standard reports, and the work environment freezes into unchanging procedural molds, the organizational mind enters a state of functional blindness. It is at this point that leaders begin to see imaginary growth patterns or imagine non-existent crises. In neuroscience and psychology laboratories, there is a striking phenomenon known as the Sensory Deprivation Hallucination Effect, or the Ganzfeld Effect. It occurs when a person is exposed to a constant visual field for a period of time, leading to a state of sensory deprivation that forces the brain to invent images and hallucinations that do not exist in order to fill the informational void.
