Michael Erickson <sysengr@atc.boeing.com> asks:
>... So I wonder if the real question is, What stifles entrepreneurship?
>or Why do people NOT do with what they have? I have a rule of thumb that
>I apply to myself. It says: Go and find out. or Find out WHAT's
>POSSIBLE. ...
The main constraint to action IMHO is that people do not believe what they
hear from management. No one has ever been rewarded for taking action that
was not sanctioned by management so they are waiting for some sign from
management that they are really serious THIS TIME.
They also know that they will not be rewarded unless management has
authorized or sanctioned the actions and they like being rewarded. They
are NOT motivated intrinsically but have been conditioned to act for
extrinsic rewards by "gold stars" and "high marks". I suspect this does
not appply to that subset of LO list participants who actually act.
Yet most are merely lurking and their idea of "action" is making a post
which is so far removed from doing something in their respective to be
laughable. Maybe Richard can share with us the ratio of lurkers to
posters on LO. I suspect it is less than 5% active. And this from a
self-selected group of "change agents"!
(PS I am not picking on lurkers, just making a point about inaction (;~})
[Host's Note: OK, Keith... Just what is that emoticon? Looks like a
barber-shop quartet singer. For what it's worth, there are 1800 email
subscribers to LO :) and a couple hundred more reading on the Web. A total
of 500 have ever posted a msg, almost 300 have introduced themselves.
...Rick]
--Keith Cowan <72212.51@CompuServe.COM>
Learning-org -- An Internet Dialog on Learning Organizations For info: <rkarash@karash.com> -or- <http://world.std.com/~lo/>