You guys are Great!
Take a look at the back of a one-dollar bill -- notice the pyramid with
the separate "top" and "eye" -- anyone here know the origin/metaphor?
Apparantly, this represents Owners at the top and all the worker bees
below ... also is a metaphor that is thousands of years old -- and that
will be effectively broken when/if the Net (and other technologies)
succeed in empowerment and breaking the hierarchical organization.
Kathy E. Gill
Business Process Information Visibility, http://process.ca.boeing.com/
BCAG Process Management, http://bpm.ca.boeing.com/ -- 425.234.2004
Empty pockets never held a man back. Only empty heads and empty hearts
can do that. - Norman Vincent Peale
Microsoft Exchange: the perfect name for its users' greatest desire!
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> From: Barry Lee Brisco[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 1998 4:30 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: WC:>: The products of villages (was Mac Question)
>
> > Man was meant to till the fields himself. Says so right here on
> this
> >here slab of stone chiseled by the master chiseler of that
> disreputable town
> >of villains!
> >
> > Just look at how far we have fallen! We have even more
> disreputable
> >professions than chiseling. We even have people who don't even labor
> to
> >write the words, but orchestrate them on glowing flasks of void! And
> then
> >there are these crazies who create incantations upon those flasks,
> >incantations that are carried out by electron demons that take a
> portion
> >of a person's life work and assign them to tallies of value used by a
> >faceless burro-cratic government run by a...
> >
> > See what happens when you get folks together in villages, towns,
> and
> >cities? Imagine, people earning their daily bread writing ephemeral
> >phosphorescent words on flasks of void! What is the world coming
> to!!!
>
> Javilk, you crack me up :>)
>
> Reminds me of an excellent book I read recently, "Guns, Germs, and
> Steel".
> By a UCLA professor. Explains clearly and succinctly why some
> civilizations
> rose to dominate others, all because of biogeography. Nothing to do
> with
> superior intelligence.
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