Re: Sustainable competition LO1899

Jim Michmerhuizen (jamzen@world.std.com)
Fri, 30 Jun 1995 21:51:54 +0059 (EDT)

Replying to LO1728 --

On Wed, 21 Jun 1995, Doug Blair wrote:

> It certaintly keeps the competition interesting, doesn't it? Starting to
> sound a little like chaos theory.

And look like it too. Imagine yourself able, for a day or so, to experience
directly -ALL- of the levels of activity in an organization, over all time
scales. At one extreme the long slow evolution of social patterns,
conventions, over periods of decades. At the other extreme, the hallway
butterflies unwittingly changing the course of policy hurricanes. The
churning Mandelbrot whirlpools.

It's all happening at once. What good are "theories" under such a blizzard
of things happening.

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