Keith's point about time (ie. rate of change) is accurate and useful.
Thanks for the inclusion of visual examples such as time lapse
photography.
I want to agree with his two statements about LO's in general and
then take a certain exception to one of them and offer a different
formulation which I think more consistent with LO's. He says,
1) The rate of change would be higher
2) The people need to be conditioned to accept this higher rate
I find "conditioned" to be a strange word to use in connection with a
learning organisation. People need to "learn", "to understand", to "be
developed for" would all be more appropriate to me. (I find "acceptance"
also to be too passive.)
However, there is something else potentially "hiding" in this statement.
It is as though we have already decided something about change which is
not present in the larger system and are trying to make it happen against
some force. I offer the perspective that we don't need to deal with
"change" as a separate issue at all. People relate to change that they
are involved in. Change is a process of development, evolution, emergence
and our expectations of change are a match for our understanding of what
is happening in the system, our environment and our relationship to it.
Therefore, the second condition might be said something like:
"People need to be included in what is happening and have extended contact
with their environments so that they are an active part of the change that
is occurring and able to deal with its rate."
Michael McMaster : Michael@kbddean.demon.co.uk
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Intelligence is the underlying organisational principle
of the universe. Heraclitus
--Michael McMaster <Michael@kbddean.demon.co.uk>
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