Hi Platt, This is great.
Didn't you also publish a document on Quality? Marsha On Jan 17, 2010, at 7:53 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Hey Mark, > > Times when Quality thinking is likely to occur -- a list to build on. > > You know you're in MoQ-Land: > > When you go fishing. > When you cringe at jargon. > When you visit an art gallery. > When you say, "'That's class." > When you read a story to a child. > When you go with your gut instinct. > When you have a feeling of coming home. > When you look for underlying assumptions. > When you hear a jazz performer improvise. > When you deliberately seek a break from routine. > When your attitude is "There must be a better way." > When you talk more about patterns than about things. > When you consider doing nothing to be a viable option. > When you ponder the difference between a jelly glass and fine crystal. > When you see a butterfly and think, "There's a nice biological value > pattern." > When you identify a commentator who calls something "outrageous" as an > armchair moralist. > When you realize that another person is running the same "Me" program as you > are which doesn't belong to either of you. > > Best, > Platt > > > > > On 16 Jan 2010 at 20:08, markhsmit wrote: > >> Hi Andre, >> Thanks for your response. Quality as the driving force sounds good. >> Sounds like a reasonable way to explain it. So, how does one switch >> from SOM to Quality thinking? What does one practice? >> >> What you describe is either living in the moment, ie. making >> decisions not based on some desire for something a little >> farther out in time, but just for the minute or the NOW as is >> popular to say these days), or, that our decisions >> are not our own to make, that is Quality makes them. I'm fine >> with either explanation. If I am wrong, please let me know. >> >> Say I were to go out to spread the word about Quality. What kind >> of flyer would I provide as a brief description? Don't worry, this >> is not my plan. >> >> Thanks again, >> Mark >> >> On Jan 16, 2010, at 7:14:46 PM, "Andre Broersen" <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> From: "Andre Broersen" <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [MD] Awareness of Quality >> Date: January 16, 2010 7:14:46 PM PST >> To: [email protected] >> Andre to Mark(who is searching for awareness of Quality) >> >> Why do you get out of bed in the morning? >> >> Mark to Andre >> OK, that sounds good. ?Now how do you explain that to a new person? >> That is what I am asking for. >> >> Andre: >> OK, because getting out of bed is BETTER than staying in, i.e. it has >> more Quality. You also respond to Quality when you stay in, in which >> case staying in bed is BETTER than getting out, i.e it has more >> Quality. >> >> SOM would have this arse-about. It would say, I am getting out of bed >> because, for example, I want to have a good breakfast (because it >> places the quality IN the breakfast). >> >> But please note that SOM uses quality in a different way to the way >> the MoQ refers to Quality. >> >> The MoQ would say that simply having the breakfast in the first place >> (i.e. in your house) is a response to Quality... having a house is a >> response to Quality etc. etc etc. Turtles all the way down the Quality >> paths. >> >> Cheers >> Andre >> 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/ > > > 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/ _______________________________________________________________________ Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars... 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/
