Navigating Complexity LO4751 Map vs. Directions

John Zavacki (jzavacki@epix.net)
Wed, 10 Jan 1996 04:46:16 -0500

Replying to LO4726 --

Stephen B. Wehrenberg wrote:
> big snip concerning belief and nonbelief in control of self-direction

> Thus ... it follows from this conjecture that personal mastery, team
> learning, and individual and shared vision are more likely to be grasped
> and operationalized by those who have an internal orientation, and nearly
> unintelligible to folks on the distant external end of Rotter's scale of
> measure.
>
> There are some interesting and not altogether pleasant connections
> between this and Charles Murray's theories in his controversial book.
> coauthored with Herrnstein), The Bell Curve.
>
> The reductio ad absurdum, not necessarily absurd, of this line of
> reasoning, is that the concept of the learning organization (and systems
> thinking) will be lost on a large segment of the polulation ... and what
> do we think about that?

Steve

I agree that the concept may be lost (for some time) on a large segment of
the population. But just as education in the main has "rubbed off" on
"the masses" over time and raised the collective concsciousness by a jot,
so too the learning organization may effect its upstream and downstream
neighbors. To take the reduction further into absurdity (which is,
afterall, the spice of life), very few inhabitants on this planet
understand the concept of relativity, yet.....

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