In discussing which metaphors are best suited to communicating with general
managers, jzavacki@epix.net wrote:
snip...
Albeit complexity and chaos theory are beyond the perceived needs of most
of my clients, it is still necessary to use "their" language to describe
"my" ideas in order to make them think they thought them up and
consequently get their support for work important to change in the domain
of relevance.
...snip
I hope never to be in a position of working for a general manager with
such an overweening need to conscript the ideas of other. Having entered
the cycle of using words to manipulate others into thinking a certain, it
is very hard to back out of it again. And if the change is to be
sustained within the organization, the change in thinking must be genuine,
not based on the consultant's verbal finesse. Otherwise, the burden of
organizational manipulation is merely transferred from the manager to the
consultant.
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Ron_Dickson@ccm.ch.intel.com
Ron Dickson
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