Sherri comments that:
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> How this links with the LO is to challenge the organization to make
> resources available in an equitable way combined with strong hearted
> leadership reduces the level of activity freezing politics.
> I think it is a chicken and egg discussion to say which is responsible for
> the main connections.
Sherri
Surely a "chicken and egg discussion" is a circular (or cyclical)
discussion. Senge devotes rather a lot of attention to this in The Fifth
Discipline - particularly in his discussion of "Seeing Circles Of
Causality".
I'm sure I've heard a few pleas from you recently challenging the validity
of linear reductionist thinking.
Actually, in this instance, I'm not sure that the challenge you espouse is
a chicken and egg discussion. I think you can explain it as a
two-dimensional cusp catastrophe where positive stakeholder commitment is
one control factor and leadership is the other. However, before developing
this further, I need to put some new diagrams on my web site.
Regards
Julian
Julian Macnamara
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