Replying to LO25455 --
Hi Roy
Roy Benford wrote:
> Firstly, this use of frameworks to decide which tool to use. There are
> many arguments about this. Rather than flood this list with the
> arguments, I will happily email interested people a copy of my Masters
> dissertation (September 1999) titled "The use of Frameworks in Critical
> Systems Thinking'. It is a 240k pdf file.
Yes, there are many and plenty of disagreements, I would also like to see
your masters dissertation.
> Secondly, the temporal scale of 7 levels. I have not read Elliott Jacques
> work but I came across this concept via a colleague of his at BIOSS,
> Gillian Stamp.
Yes, then might know that Gillian worked under Elliot Jaques and has been
researching his work for many years. She developed a Symbol Sort to assess
managerial cognition in relation to organisational structure.
> The temporal scale applies to an individual's time
> horizon. It seems a bit of a jump to go from an individual to an
> organisational situation or issue.
It is better for you to read the work of Jaques and to understand the
frame of reference that it works in. There has been found to be
correlation's between temporal scales, logic, cognition and the structure
of organisations.
Kindest
gavin
--Gavin Ritz <garritz@xtra.co.nz>
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