Michael Ayer's questions made me ponder, as many of us do from time to
time, the paradox of doing and not doing. As I recall, we navigated this
terrain over a year ago on this list, with some interesting expression.
Back then, it was the Tao of Doing Business! Is there not a paradox
screaming from that notion? But it can't be dismissed. Here we all are,
"philosophers", lovers of ideas. And around us the business world often
gets away from us, so to speak. That world devolves or evolves despite
your or my "original plan", such as that might be.
And our ideas of creative communication, team spirit, best practices,
organizational harmony are sunk by the fact that there are simply so many
of us, with so many unique mental models, that it's sometimes hard to
align enough of us for enough of the time for the sake of the
"philosopher's grail" of Truth or Goodness or Objective Reality. Do they
exist, anyway, in business? Seems we've been typing away about that one,
too.
Rumi is instructive from his 7 century old tomb in Konya, Turkey:
Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy,
absentminded. Someone sober
will worry about events going badly.
Let the lover be.
The paradox exists between lover and "events" which are "organized". I'll
go further: it exists between what we hold in our hearts and what we
manifest in our actions. And here we are: philosophers of the learning
organization.
Best regards,
-- Barry Mallis bmallis@markem.comLearning-org -- An Internet Dialog on Learning Organizations For info: <rkarash@karash.com> -or- <http://world.std.com/~lo/>