Intro -- Diane Zitek LO316

DZITEK (dzitek@smtplink.ccm.edu)
Fri, 03 Mar 95 15:49:28 EST

My name is Diane Zitek, and I'm an administrator at County College of
Morris in northern New Jersey.

My expertise, interest, and curiosity lies in "talking in the
workplace," mental models, defensive routines, hidden agendas and all
those communication rituals we engage in everyday. I have a master's
degree in organizational communication and wrote my master's thesis on
communication barriers to planned change. I was introduced to the
works of Senge, Argyris and Bohm while researching my thesis and was
hooked. I have also written and presented a workshop called
"Harnessing the Power of Collective Minds Through Dialogue."

I'd be interested in information, observations, and comments on ways
of talking in the workplace that support or undermine learning
organizations.

Here's one thought I'd like to throw out.

Learning requires information.
Information leads to knowledge.
Information is power.

Translated: When information is used as a source of power, learning
can't take place.

Diane Zitek
DZITEK@CCM.EDU