Senge is Close, But... LO25430

From: Roy Benford (roy@benford.demon.co.uk)
Date: 10/12/00


Replying to LO25421 --

Russell

>Look for yourself in the index of Michael Hammer's book, he never
>identifies nor defines structure yet he writes about re-structuring.
>
>"94% of all problems in business and organizations are problems in
>structures and systems, only 6% are problems with people." W. Edwards
>Deming

It is difficult to know how to politely point out the self contradictory
nature of such a statement. Is it not people that create the
organisational structures and systems?

Perhaps, we could be more successful at re-engineering corporations if we
examined the motivations of the architects and builders of the
organisational structures and systems.

Roy Benford
Fulmer, UK

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