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> OD Network Conference, I was sitting in a session in which one internal
> consultant was sharing her disillusionment with her organization's leadership.
> I was struck by how passionately the whole group of internal and external OD
> practitioners joined in an "ain't they awful" tune about the incompetence of
> their respective executive teams.
>
Someone on the net recommended "Future Edge" by Joel Barker in which he
argues that everyone's vision is limited by the "paradigm" he or she uses
to solve their problems. That is, executives may be utter unable to see
what a consultant puts before them, if it requires doing business another
way (a new paradigm).
Of course, everyone constructs his or her own reality and this has
implications for communication that have always fascinated me. I am a
statistician, not a a business consultant, but I think a lot of the
difficulty people find in first courses in statistics is not the
mathematics. It is seeing problems in a new way.
If you have not read Barker's book, take an hour - it is quick reading
and IMHO worthwhile.
M Rosenzweig
mrosenzw@research1.bryant.edu