I would like to pick up on the thread of the LO-site as a *learning
organization*---to me this is similar to the ecocycle approach that views
organizations as having life cycles as opposed to an ecological cycle. A
common term describing this approach is Breakpoint Change (Want, 1995;
Imparato and Harari, 1994; Land and Jarman, 1992):
1- the change will create what has never been seen before and cannot be
predicted by the past...2- there is a shift from independence to
interdependence...3- the power of the future replaces the anchor of the
past. Breakpoint Change presumes a three-phase cycle of change: forming,
norming and fufilling. The key to organization change within this process
is Bifurcation, or the planned disruption of the LO to such an extent that
the entrepreneurial spirit of exch phase is renewed and the LO-site , in
essence, begins anew.
What think ye?
Frank Voehl (FVoehl@aol.com)
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