Julian commented that:
>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.
First, let me apologize for the chicken and egg comment -- I was in too
much of a hurry when I was writing. What I meant to say is that they both
feed on each other and are dependent on each other. What a
two-dimensional cusp catastrophe is -- well I am afraid you will have to
explain that to me!
Sherri
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