Replying to Ray who asked
>If,
Do you have a breakdown on the source or sources of the
unwritten rules and is there a cross system set of elements that
make up the archetypes?>
Ray
The second part of the question I do not understand, sorry. Can you
amplify.
The first part has a pragmatic and a deeper answer.
The pragmatic source of unwritten rules can be found by asking what
motivates people in a given company, what [normally who] enables that
motivation and how [when] it is delivered. I am loath to use up words
replicating examples that are in the book unless there is a lot of
interest.
The deeper answer is in what my partner Raw Shaw and I call the shared
pattern or memome of the system: the replicator at the core of the
organisation; its paradigms, shared meaning, language, 'theories-in-use' or
mental models. As we have expressed it elsewhere [acknowledging many other
sources who have said something similar over the years]
>Many, most, of these tacit rules come from within. They spring from the
ideas and images in men and women's minds; those invisible powers that
constantly govern them.>
Hope this helps Ray. It fascinates me, but I am loath to write too much
lest it does not fascinate others.
If Price
The Harrow Partnership
Pewley Fort Guildford UK
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