Why a learning organization LO10405

Benjamin Compton (bcompton@geocities.com)
Wed, 09 Oct 1996 21:52:50 -0700

Replying to LO10389 --

Michel, Christopher J wrote:

> Adding to Ben's answer of Rol query -
>
> And, are we bound by our current tools and techniques? What quickly comes
> to my mind is the "picture worth a thousand words" metaphor. How long
> does it take us to look at and ponder those "thousand words" versus
> READING the "thousand words."
>
> Is organizational learning hampered by the tools and techniques used, by
> logistical time and space, financial constraints, internationalization,
> etc.?

Excellent point! Recently I've been thinking about concepts. It takes a
lot of words to describe a concept. If we could represent concepts as some
type of object -- pictoral ? -- that can be combined or manipulated to
describe a much bigger picture that would be great!

Math is symbolic of much deeper things; systems archetypes allow us to
pictorally describe cause and affect over time and space; how could we
better represent concepts?

Could we increase the rate at which we learned if we could find a
different way to deal with concepts? 

-- 
Ben Compton
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