Jack Hirschfeld stated:
> My definition of a vision: Something you can see which is not there.
> For me, this covers the sacred and the profane.
How would you define MIRAGE? Do think that there is a difference between
mirage and vision?
Is it not true that we express an understanding of the environment by the
language conventions we adopted? Imagine a poet expressing opinions with
words that only the poet understand! Did the poet communicate any thing
at all? Unfortunately I found examples of this type of 'communications' on
all types of presentations, including some discussions on this very
medium.
With the advent of the Internet we must be sensitive with meaning of
words, notwithstanding the language in use! Thoughts are expressed with
words. Once that word has left us, we no longer have control of its
interpretation! Don't you think that the transmitter has to comply with
the receiver and not vice-versa? Imagine a radio transmitter transmitting
at a frequency which no radio receiver is capable of synchronizing to?
The sad story is that if an organization wants to enter the realm of a
learning organization, effective communications is sine qua non. Do you
think that there is a possibility that failures of this kind of endeavors
can be attributed to the fact that the same words/concepts may be
interpreted differently by the CEO, the executives, the managers, and/or
the front liners?
> I really don't care much what people label as visions, as long as they
>don't mess with mine.
In my opinion the words that we chose to utter are not ours they belong to
the receptor.
--Tony De Luca Tony_De_Luca@DMR.ca
Learning-org -- An Internet Dialog on Learning Organizations For info: <rkarash@karash.com> -or- <http://world.std.com/~lo/>