Robert,
You wrote: "I don't know how much anger is out there, or exactly what you
meant by that statement, but I SUSPECT that there is a bias in this
particular online community against management, because the notion is that
management is the keeper of the system."
Good point. If you see management as the keeper of the system, and you
already have a bias that management is the problem, you'll go looking for
problems in "the system."
I see the system as broader than just those things that management is
responsible for. For example, the system includes the notion that
"management is responsible for the system." Whether it's management or
others holding this notion, it limits an organization's view of what's
possible and who is able to act to make things better.
Dale
--Dale Emery <72704.1550@CompuServe.COM>
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