As a schoolteacher in a previous life, and a consultant now (who still
likes to "teach"), I was intrigued by Joan's references to teachers in this
topic about organisational learning/unlearning. (I wonder who is the
teacher and who is the pupil in an organisation?) Anyway, Joan's final
comment seemed pertinent to me:
"Organizations are made up of people and since they act individually,
they must learn and unlearn individually."
Yeah, teachers can't do a heck of a lot. Learning is done by people. (We
could talk about this endlessly, and I'm sure it's been covered earlier in
the life of this list!)
Anyway, I've enjoyed the odd piece of humour on the list, so thought I'd
inject a relevant piece here (which is also a "story" I guess, as per
another thread). OK - imagine a cartoon with three frames. Pictures of
two little boys and a dog.
- First boy says smugly to second boy, "I've taught my dog to whistle"
- Second boy bends down to the dog and says "But I can't hear him
whistling"
- First boy replies, "I said I'd taught him to whistle, not that he had
learned to whistle"
As another contributor says in his messages (Scott?) "For the fun of it!!"
- but maybe also to learn something....
Cherry
--Cherry Vanderbeke, Wang New Zealand Limited Email: ckv@wang.co.nz "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do"
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