Mel, :-) Ian
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 5:11 PM, ml <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > morning, Marsha and KO, > > These both seem correct 'laws' or rules, but at > different levels. > > Requisite Variety seems a statement of Social > Level competence. Specialization seems to > give a picture of the Intellectual Level where a > depth of knowledge is needed. > > If you look at two dfferent types of jobs in a > company, a manager and a subject-matter > expert, you can see how each will apply one > of the laws more intensively than the other. > > > KO >> Almost the opposite - specialisation is the winning way - Ricardo's theory >> of Comparative Advantage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ricardo shows >> how we are most of service when we specialise. > > mel: > For short-hand well name this CAS for > Comparative Advantage of Specialization > >> > MarshaV >> > I like this... >> > >> > "In cybernetics there's a law called the Law of Requisite Variety. It >> > says that in any system of human beings or machines, the element in that >> > system with the widest range of variability will be the controlling > element. >> > And if you restrict your behavior, you lose on requisite variety." >> > (Bandler and Grinder, frogs into PRINCES', 1979, P.74) >> > > > mel: > For this we'll use LRV as a short tag. > > The manager, ignoring the build-a-self-serving-empire type, > works to support the subject matter experts by providing > all they need to get their jobs done and clears obstacles > from their paths. She helps obtain resources for unforseen > emergencies. She coordinates people who have serial > dependencies such that efficiency is maximized and she > reduces loss of effort and turbulance to maximize effectiveness. > > These are all social level, organizational tasks. Her limit > on the subject matter is simply to know enough to understand > why the subject matter experts need what they do, when. > (a little over simplified, but generally in the right direction.) > > She is valuable as a manager to the extent she can draw > from the breadth of the enterprise and coordinate the > maximum variety of leveraged cooperation to maintain the > focus of the overall 'management unit' on achieving its goals. > She is a creature of LRV in her job. (We'll say her degree was > an MBA, which if you don't have one is a 'broad knowledge' > degree to teach the student a huge flexible picture of the > entire theoretical business enterprize.) > > The subject matter expert we will assume is a PhD with a > depth of knowledge in the subject he studied and enough > lab and applied work to have built actual competence > beyond simple theoretical knowledge. He was hired to help > halve the size of a 'piece of technology' by applying his > competence and depth of specialized knowledge. He > works as part of a team to achieve this goal. > (specialization that got him a degree in the first place) > > He spends his days alternating between the arcana > of building to design, by hypothesis, testing the result > using those pesky things called numbers. And starting > a new cycle of change on the design vestors of their > project. Occasionally he has meetings and reports > that interrupt his INTELLECTUAL work for SOCIAL. > So, he is a creature of CAS. > > Both the manager and the subject matter expert exist > as humans subject to the same levels of evolutons > as the rest of us, but each specialises in skills that > are more LRV or more CAS centric. > > Okay, way more ANALysis thatn most folks need but > my inner geek slipped out to play. Many bits of > over-generalization were used here and only a few animals > were killed in the effort. > > thanks--mel > > > > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
