Sensing the Whole — The Flourishing Journal The Flourishing Journal Sensing the Whole What a forgotten sociologist knew about distinctive competence, organizational character, and why excellent systems still fail to flourish. By Victor Counted August 2026 · Organizational Flourishing I was reading a hand-me-down 1982 paperback of In Search of Excellence when I found another reader's ink pressed under two phrases on page 98: distinctive competence and organizational character. Whoever underlined them is likely retired now, maybe gone. And here I am, a psychologist who studies how people and institutions flourish, discovering that the questions I have spent my career formalizing were already circled in ballpoint before I was old…