Hi Ernie, Succinctly put. I like it!
// Lennart On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar < [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > 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<http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/typepad/sethsmainblog/%7E3/l5rqUISdggo/organization-vs-movement-vs-philosophy.html> > via Seth's Blog <http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_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
