On Mon, 27 Nov 1995, Myrna Casebolt wrote:
> The kind of organizational learning we want, I think, comes from study of
> how we get to where we want to be........and how we figure out where we
> want to be....so what do you think? Myrna
The complication is that it's very difficult to think of a time in the
future when you are thinking of a time after that in which you have done
something but you don't yet know what it is. All sorts of changes happen
in our environment that we as organizations and individuals fail to forsee
that influence "where we want to be."
This incapability on people's part to "scenario plan" is compounded by
generating learnings based on how to maximize short term profits or
maximize short term results. Thinking long term is usually reserved for
people who have the ideas but lack persuasion skills to promote those
ideas.
This incapability also compounded due to plain greed. Pure and simple.
It's irrelevant that organizations can learn because the people who fund
those organiztions will prevent those organizations from learning about
things that erode their control.
I think a great example of a learning organization free from both of these
obstacles is the Linux community. They have no control to start with so
that issue is irrelevant. They also freely contribute to making Linux
great for programmers. (okay, it may not be great for the average user,
but...)
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Host's Note: Linux is, I believe, a public domain version of unix for
PC's.
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-- Andrew Moreno amoreno@broken.ranch.org