Hello: As Harrison is a bit shy (?) or not yet fully prepared, let me clarify some of my doubts about this question.
As many of you know, I have been for years an active contributer to the LOlist, and even contributed a lot of posts on "metanoia" that basically wanted to probe that: - the (descriptive and non prescriptive) concept of learning company, defined by Arie the Geus, was a very interesting one, that Senge himself recognized as the origin of all LO's thoughts (Preface to de Geus' "Living Company"). - the 5 disciplines of LO's, introduced by Senge, were a fraud and a fad, as no companies reported to become LOs after training in the 5 "disciplines". - Senge himself recognized in an interview to Fast Take that the cases of success were very little (to none...) - later, he began to say that LO's "had been an useful concept for a period" (useful for what? to allow him to sell books and consultancy? He has been even in Portugal to give one of the most uninteresting presentation, complemented with a complete lack of respect for the "third world" participants (I know, as I was one of them) - I suspect with is NEW method (KM?) he wanted to do a revamp of his marketing strategy - some other fad to impress the public during some time; - my hypothesis was that to create an LO's from am Ordinary organization a process of metanoia (second order change of mind) was needed. This could be accomplished by changing from Argyris and Schon's Model 1 to Model 2 and/or through OST - OST is not Open in the sense that it has no rules. In my opinion, on the contrary, OST has some "foundations" and rules that SUSPEND, for the duration of the event - and maybe more - the normal-closed-Model-1-rules - The simplicity of those presuppositions or foundations is that they are minimalist and very effective - a full accomplished methodology that is not easy to change to something better - but it is easy to change to some method that is not so good. So if OST is only an "halfway methodology", what will follow? Maybe something better, of course. But maybe something worse. Reasons why I am - I repeat - curious but a bit afraid Artur __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
