Re: Executive personalities

toner%smtpgate@fourhcouncil.edu
Thu, 19 Jan 1995 11:45:17 -0500

I read this with great interest--given
my experience in an organization where
upper and a key core of middle
management has supported, guided, and
in fact, initiated our organizational
transformation to a learning
organization. Perhaps this is
unusual--but, all I know is that the
idea of transformation then caught fire
with many of our people from throughout
the organization.

I cannot imagine how we would have
gotten as far as we have, even given
some very, very real urgent challenges
facing us, without this key support and
vision of our upper and some
mid-management.

Kathy Toner

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John's comments on executive
personalities (Re:Flapping your wings)
was enlightening and depressingly
obvious. It reminds me of some thoughts
I'd like to share regarding a community
that I lived in for three years that is
attempting to re-organize itself from a
hierarchically-based decision-making
structure to consensus-based.

Robert Levi | 4801 N. 107th
St. | voice: 303/665-6679,x361
Director of Computing | Lafayette, CO
80026 | fax: 303/665-0757
Alexander Dawson School | email:
dawson@usa.net | Systems Thinking
Junkie