On 23 Mar 1996, Charles Parry wrote:
> For example, in watching Peter
> Senge do systems modeling live, or answer questions about some real
> situation that he had direct experience of (as opposed to something more
> general or theoretical), I was repeatedly left with the strong impression
> that it was almost as if he had flowed *himself* through the "system" in
> some way in his imagination, and then translated that experience into
> symbols and diagrams and sentences of (linear) description.
I think organizational learning practitioners that use these types of
metaphors are able to build a precise internal representation of an
organizational system which they then translate into external reality to
get results in "the real world".
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BTW One of the founders of this beer company start-up in Boston would
find prospective taverns/pubs/restaurants to host their beer by mentally
doing a "fly-through" through the streets of Boston.
Andrew Moreno
amoreno@broken.ranch.org
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