Durval Muniz de Castro (durval@ia.cti.br) concludes with:
>..I believe when Dee Hock said that institutions restrict ingenuity, he
>didn't mean the basic institutions of society, which embody its values,
>and are the main motivation to ingenuity and creative behavior. I believe
>he was simply warning against the shortcomings of bureaucracy.
I do not want to make this overly simplistic, but Dee was running a very
unusual organization (to his credit), and IMHO his terminology was because
he his methods reflected the nonstandard nature of his type of
organization (i.e. not a functional or hierarchic company).
FWIW...IMHO....Keith
--Keith Cowan <72212.51@CompuServe.COM>
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