Life in Organizations LO9460

arthur battram (apb@cityplex.demon.co.uk)
Mon, 26 Aug 1996 18:56:12 +0100

Replying to Michael McMaster
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 10:Subject: Life in Organizations LO9436
who said:

>>Cherry asks a great question about the atrocities carried out in
>>corporations. "Who is they?".

>I do not accept that it can be "just a few COLD managers". There is
>a system operating and if a few cold managers can do such things,
>then there is a larger system which is allowing, encouraging,
>causing, etc.
>
>But then, it isn't "they" at all. It is the system.

20 years ago some of us said "its the system" "we've got to change the
system"...

maybe, just maybe, thanks to senge and the complexity science crew, we've
now got a handle on how to do that...

obviously this comment also links to the 'our purpose' thread, IMHO. as in
why we're here [or at least why I'm here...]

--

from Arthur Battram, organiser of the LGMB project 'Tools for Learning', which helps local authorities to apply complexity concepts to learning. apb@cityplex.demon.co.uk "complexity is in here... and simplicity is out there...if we want it to be..."

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