Replying to LO25701 --
At de Lange wrote in response to a 'complexifier' Frank (Frank, are you
with us on LO?):
>Fitness is to maintain a balance
>between the "free energy" which I take up and the "free energy" which I
>supply self by letting go of excess baggage, using it for higher service.
and
>Is it not a strange thing? We live in in an old world which has become
>dead to our dreams, but that new world which will be alive once again to
>our dreams is not yet ready to be born. I dream about this new world, but
>others do their best to shatter this dream because it involves too much
>entropy production, taking us too close to the edge of chaos.
Eli Goldratt has written his fourth business novel: Necessary but not
Sufficient. I was wondering whether this novel describes reality, is a
forecast or a prophecy. Now it becomes clear to me, that it is a dream.
The power of a dream is, that it allows to ask questions ("Dreaming is
freeing my mind from self-imposed conformation."). And by asking those
questions, dreams can become reality. This novel is also about the
nightmares caused by dreams that have become true, when the dream has
lacked wholeness.
I find the deeper meaning of this novel in an awareness of the balance
mentioned by At: Technology is necessary (IT, ERP-systems in this case).
It is "the "free energy" which I take up". But it need to be supplemented
complementarily by a change of the rules (and the other higher level games
- compare Will Mc Whinneys Paths of Change), the mental models, the inner
organization of the members of the technology employing organization. This
is "the "free energy" which I supply self by letting go of excess
baggage".
Liebe Gruesse,
Winfried
--"Winfried Dressler" <winfried.dressler@voith.de>
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