This is in response to the below post written by Karl.
>I read P.M.Senge and found my personal structure of management mirrored.
>Everything else than organic procedures is wasting energy. The learning
>company is organic - that's all.
>
>In Germany this kind of thinking is quite new. Unfortunately I did not
>find far now the ideal circumstances to establish an "official" learning
>org. For that reason I act "hidden" with quite good success.
What struck me about this post was the sentence "for that reason I act
'hidden' with quite goood success." I was discussing my frustrations with
my attempts to bring about change in my organization with a good friend
and former colleague. His advice was to seek to change in small increments
and only with those willing to go with. He also suggested that bold
pronoucements (the kind my current organizational culture is prone to),
never work and in fact scare people. It immediately puts everyone on the
defensive and nothing really changes because of human nature to resist.
The organization I previously worked for accomplished change through
small, quiet steps, but when you looked back at the accomplishment, a lot
of ground got covered. To me this means that being 'hidden' is very
effective.
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