Re: Organisational thinking LO3497

Jud Lawrie (jlawrie@cedar.cic.net)
Mon, 30 Oct 1995 09:41:02 -0500 (EST)

Replying to LO3485 --

Jim Saveland makes a good point below about organizations having a life of
their own, which I subscribe to. See Margaret Wheatley in "Leadership and the
New Science" for one good discussion of this.

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Date: Sat, 28 Oct 1995 14:31:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: JSAVELAND@delphi.com
Reply-To: <951019222557_49213810@mail06.mail.aol.com>
Subject: Re: Organisational thinking LO3485
To: learning-org@world.std.com

Replying to LO3307 --

Fred and Jan state that organizations don't do anything (especially
thinking); people do.

This seems to reflect a mental model of organizations as inanimate and
machine-like. Organizations are systems of people and like any system,
the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Exploring the mental
model that organizations are living organisms seems to be more
fruitful.

Jim Saveland
/s=j.saveland/ou1=w01c@mhs-fswa.attmail.com

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