>One approach to "the organisation of learning organisations" which
>resonates with me and seems similar in thinking to what Roberto has
>offerred is to look at the organisation of conversations.
>
>The principles of redundancy, recombination, connection, enrolment,
>intention, freedom, choice, responsibility, self-similarity and
>distribution are key elements in my organisational design. Also, theory,
>values and basic principles combined with metaphor for understanding are
>an essential part.
>
>Intelligence is a function of organisation. Organisation is a matter or
>networks of relationships that form patterns.
>
>There will be teams - project or otherwise - but it is the connections and
>relationships of these teams that are key. If these are designed around
>accountable conversations which are accessible to the whole in some way,
>then an organisation begins to appear that is consistent with a design
>FROM learning rather than one which starts with an existing design and
>tries to figure out how to get it to work well as a learning organisation.
>
>Michael McMaster : Michael@kbddean.demon.co.uk
Michael has an excellent new book out which I have just started to read.
He expands upon the topics raised above. The new book is...
"The Intelligence Advantage - Organizing for Complexity"
by Michal D. McMaster
1996, Butterworth-Heinenmann Publishers
ISBN 0-7506-9792
paperback, $17.95 US, $24.95 Canada, L14.99 UK
Valdis Krebs
Krebs & Associates
inflow@concentric.net
--"Valdis E. Krebs" <InFlow@cris.com>
Learning-org -- An Internet Dialog on Learning Organizations For info: <rkarash@karash.com> -or- <http://world.std.com/~lo/>