> > Among other things, I think this explains why Billy often finds my approach frustrating: he'd like to build a movement, whereas I'm busy building a philosophy.
-- Ernie P. > Organization vs. movement vs. philosophy > via Seth's Blog by Seth Godin on 6/13/11 > An organization uses structure and resources and power to make things happen. > Organizations hire people, issue policies, buy things, erect buildings, earn > market share and get things done. Your company is probably an organization. > > A movement has an emotional heart. A movement might use an organization, but > it can replace systems and people if they disappear. Movements are more > likely to cause widespread change, and they require leaders, not managers. > The internet, it turns out, is a movement, and every time someone tries to > own it, they fail. > > A philosophy can survive things that might wipe out a movement and that would > decimate an organization. A philosophy can skip a generation or two. It is > often interpreted, and is more likely to break into autonomous groups, to > morph and split and then reunite. Industrialism was a philosophy. > > The trouble kicks in when you think you have one and you actually have the > other. > -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org
