Arthur,
Who said "self managed teams" were fun? I know we want and expect them to
be if we design them. But that doesn't mean we can't learn from the ones
that we were in that we didn't like.
I suggest that if we have zero experience of them, then we aren't likely
to get there without major already existing such teams to join.
But I also know that you have considerable experience in having such
entities occur. My main point was not the emotive one of families - I
expected that would draw a response - but the nature of "self-organising"
being inside of a lot of pre-existing structure.
You have shared with me in the past the incredibly creative work that you
did to have conditions be structured so that both self-organising teams
occurred and a more general learning also occurred. My purpose was to
draw our attention to that.
Mike
> From: Arthur Battram <apb@cityplex.demon.co.uk>
>
> Michael, as someone who spent 11 years of his life developing and
> providing play opportunities for children, so that they might learn to
> grow and develop and create and self manage, etcetera , I'm conscious that
> not everyone has experienced their family as a self managed team: for many
> it was/is hell, or at least unsatisfactory...
--
Michael McMaster : Michael@kbdworld.com
book cafe site : http://www.vision-nest.com/BTBookCafe
"I don't give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity
but I'd die for the simplicity on the other side of complexity."
attributed to Chief Justice Brandeis
Learning-org -- An Internet Dialog on Learning Organizations
For info: <rkarash@karash.com> -or- <http://world.std.com/~lo/>