On Tue, 9 Jan 1996, Stephen B. Wehrenberg wrote:
> The reductio ad absurdum, not necessarily absurd, of this line of
> reasoning, is that the concept of the learning organization (and systems
> thinking) will be lost on a large segment of the polulation ... and what
> do we think about that?
Thanks for an thoughtful post.
I don't think learning org's and systems thinking has to be lost on the
segment of the population that doesn't have a big picture view [if that
is what you mean]. The learning org facilitators just have to tailor
their presentation of the material to each group.
That takes the focus away from the "learners" and puts it on the
"facilitators." The facilitator's have a responsibility to notice these
kinds of patterns [this pattern is very perceptive of you to notice BTW]
and utilize them.
Another thing to remember is that the big picture and details patterns
are context specific. There is no such thing as a big picture or details
person - they have different patterns depending on the context - there
are many levels of contexts in learning org. and systems thinking.
Facilitator tailoring of their presentations presupposes that this
tailoring will be a one way process. How to get around this? Build
environments where learners learn how to adapt what patterns they operate
from. For example, if learners could learn how to be both big picture and
details oriented for multiple contexts.... that would shift the
responsiblity to the learner to achieve personal mastery of that.
BTW The stuff Stephen is talking about is easy to talk about but not so
easy to do and even less so to teach HOW to do.
Andrew Moreno
-- Andrew Moreno <amoreno@broken.ranch.org>