for me, IMHO, when we say 'it's the system' [as in complex adaptive
system, complexity, chaos, self-organisiation, emergence, 'the edge of
chaos' etcetera, etcetera, ] it's not just blaming the bosses.
it's more complicated than that, and the questions about why the system in
organisations perpetuates, and why we all suffer inside it, etcetera are
more interesting than that...
as many of us have said before, we have to find new ways to talk about it,
it's not just about old solutions like more communication, clear
objectives, vision, stakeholders or whatever...
apologies to those of us who know this already, but this 'blaming bosses'
meme is really bugging me...
and as dale emery says, let's stop blaming, and [I say] let's start
understanding the system...
--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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