> I wonder if the gossip process in organizations is an information
> compost heap?
>
If not precisely "gossip", at least what we might call "hallway wisdom"
(by analogy with "street-wise"). It helps me in fact to picture all the
formal structures as sprouting somehow out of such a compost heap. A fer-
ment, underneath everything else, of information.
Regards
jamzen@world.std.com
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Host's Note: When I read Sam's first message, I interpreted "compost
heap" as decay (bad).
Now, I see the alternate interpretation of "reduction to helpful
fertilizer, positive ferment."
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