hello again, sheila isakson's quotes remind me that emery and trist studied and documented 4 org/social 'environments' that progressed like this:
1. random -- no planning possible, same as harrisons "reactive" 2. clustered -- planning, learning possible 3. disturbed, reactive -- competitve, systems bumping into systems 4. turbulent -- adaptive, permanent whitewater, and i think the equivalent to OS and the OS org in the stuff i got from merrelyn emery in her workshop, she had pencilled in a fifth: "vortical" but said it wasn't sustainable, but definitly showed up at times. academic language kept her/them from saying "spirit" but this seems exactly what their talking about, to me. i map these five onto matter-body-mind-soul-spirit... and the neatest thing for me is that the academics' use of vortical fits perfectly with what we've all heard/said: "i was going to use the law of two feet, but i just got 'sucked' into this conversation over there..." m p.s. -- sorry to be catching up on all of this at once, but how to ignore all this stuff?????? :-) -- Michael Herman ...inviting results in evolving organizations Michael Herman Associates 300 West North Avenue #1105 Chicago IL 60610 312-280-7838 voice 312-280-7837 fax [email protected] The Global Chicago Network http://www.globalchicago.net Michael Herman Associates http://www.globalchicago.net/mha
