Re: Unskillful decisions

Robert Levi (dawson@usa.net)
Tue, 31 Jan 95 11:31:58 MST

Dick,
Thanks for the clarification re: Unskillful decisions. If I may reflect back
to you:
-- You relate increasing skill to faster feedback and corrections that are
more finely matched to the needed adjustment;
-- In non-linear systems (i.e. ecosystems) we are relatively unskillful
because feedback is "incomplete" and responses are only "marginally effective."
-- You feel that in order to increase skill as a society, we need "more
people (reactions) using a common goal and sharing information to improve
the completeness of the feedback" which you call "collaborative holism".

These are very important ideas. I plan to share them with the whole-sys
list, as well as the learning-org list.

My understanding is that you relate increased skill to more people sharing
information, so as to provide a more complete feedback loop. I hear your
assumption that more people will provide a broader range of feedback, due to
their differing mental models as they pertain to the common goal. So my
conclusion is that it is useful to have a wide range of mental models
available in support of a common goal. This is not usually an easy thing to
swallow. I'd like to seek deeper inquiry between the relationship between a
common goal and differing mental models.

Robert
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