Replying to LO25406 --
Vicki entreated, in this manner:
> I am interested in identifying organizations that consider themselves or
> are considered by others to be learning organizations, and what things
> they are doing to practice. Do any of you happen to know if a list of
> such organizations exists, or where I might begin with this inquiry?
>
> Thanks for allowing me to tap into your expertise.
and lo! the Rickmeister spake:
> [Host's Note: There is no such "official" list. ..Rick]
Hmmm, a little curt, Rick, understandably, perhaps. Pray allow your
humble captain to add the following miserable squib of linguistic
persiflage:
And if there were, membership of said list would lead to instant dismissal
from it, according to the principle enshrined in the Marxist* perspective
on society (polite).
As Mr Hubbard reminded us, in the words of his guru, William Toowin:
"We're looking for something that links/builds/fits comfortably into the
LO mantra."
Now the mantra of the learning organisation ought to be
'ello, ello, ello, ello, ello, ello,'
but unfortunately, to us Brits at least it sounds too much like a phalanx
of quaint British 'bobbies' coming upon some wrongdoing, as in
'ello, ello, what's all this then?'
Actually a lot of us prefer the term 'organisational learning' because too
many organisations claim to have arrived at the destination 'learning
organisation'. Unfortunately the mantra:
'oh ell, oh ell, oh ell, oh ell, oh ell,'
isn't an improvement.
so that leaves us with this mantra:
'what's all this then, what's all this then, what's all this then, what's
all this then...'
Keep on truthseekin', dudes,
el Capitano di Complexité
*that's Groucho, not Karlo, obviously
[Host's Note: Thanks, Captainmeister! ..Rick]
--captain complexity <thecaptain@cityplex.demon.co.uk>
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