Change from the Bottom Up LO5071

Myrna Casebolt (CASEBMJ@DHSS.STATE.WI.US)
Tue, 23 Jan 1996 08:33:29 -0600

Replying to LO5030 -- was Intro -- Joan Schraith Cole
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Joan Schraith Cole wrote:
So, from this standpoint, I'm interested in learning what can be done by
people at the bottom of the food chain to be "change agents" -- or does
the theory of learning organizations just address management?

Great question and zeros in on one of my great concerns. Learning takes
place all over the place. I think it was Hoffer who once said that
learners inherit the future...the learned find themselves in a world that
no longer exists. For a long time now, I have thought that we are
evolving towards more acknowledgment of holism.....the idea of
"management" simply has a decreasing role .... the evolutionary rattle is
sounding..... I can see where you would get the idea that the theory of
LO just addresses management issues. Do you think that might be because
we have no subscribers who are lavatory attendants????? (I almost blocked
and deleted that...but stopped myself because I think that we might be
dealing with an elitist issue here....so I'm raising it....what do you
think?)

Thank you for listening and sharing your thoughts and ideas and
feelings.....welcome....Myrna

casebmj@wp.dhss.state.wi.us

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Myrna Casebolt <CASEBMJ@DHSS.STATE.WI.US>