Christoph,
At 17:38 09/07/01 +0200, you wrote:
(CR)
>Ed Weick wrote:
>> I feel I must come to Keith's
>> defence. Whether he says it with brevity or length, whatever he says he
>> says with both passion and intellect.
>
>Well, the same was true for Goebbels (to lead your argument ad
>absurdum, not to compare Keith with Goebbels). I don't deny that
>Keith writes with passion and intellect, but I can't help but
>occasionally challenging some statements where he's advocating
>IMHO detrimental policies. (In this sense I fully agree with you
>that Keith is "one of the most challenging people" here. ;-) )
>I hope Keith doesn't take it too personally -- it's just my style
>(also IRL); some like it and a few don't. But then, from the
>feedback I gather that this list can bear with me (some even
>like my postings). :-)
Re your "I hope Keith doesn't take it too personally". Now this is
interesting! Here's a little story. About a week ago while walking my dog
in the field behind here I was chatting with a woman who spends a lot of
time in Switzerland visiting her husband who works there full-time. I
didn't mention you but she told me en passant that she finds the Swiss to
be extremely brusque people, sometimes to the point of seeming to be very
rude aggressive. But that they're OK underneath.
Well, you seem to fit the pattern so far! Perhaps you're OK underneath. How
deep I wonder. So I'm working on a culture-change in you, as well as trying
to change your ideas. Perhaps we ought to imagine Futurework to be on a
mid-Atlantic island (with Sally and Arthur as our [non-hierarchical]
government).
Keith H
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