Replying to LO25889 --
Burt Perrin wrote
> Thank you, Peggy, for your Chronology of Learning Organization Concepts.
>
> This is exactly the type of information I hope to see discussed on this
> List, which alas seems to be happening far too infrequently.
Let's start discussing on it.
I was amazed about the different insights provided by various histories of
psychology written by the French, Russian and English speaking writers. So
it might be in this case.
Let alone the linear model issues first ( as per David Bohm's Thought as a
System at least) . I think it is worthwhile to put the relatioship between
OD and LO first. I think the inputs from different 'schools' viewpoints
will be welcomed, so some of us might like to 'recommand' our candidates
for reference. (In Andra Gabor's last year book, The Capitalist
Philosophers:The Geniuses of Modern Business－There Lives, Times, and
Ideas, the LO was treated with Dr. Deming.)
I think the western people digested the Japanese 'experiences' to some
extent in 'TQM'/'JIT'...So I like to put J. M. Juran's Managerial
Breakthrough (1964 and practiced in Japan or USA since '50s) and W. E.
Deming's Out of the Crisis (1982 or much earlier since '50). I was not
very sure not to put H. A. Simon's Administrative Behavior(since '45) in
the list since some research pointed out it is the first book with
'organizational learning' in the Economic Cooperation Administration case(
since '57 at least) among others.
I think Burk's input is interestring so I tried to 'extend' Peggy's list a
little bit for your reference.
Hanching Chung
http://www.deming.com.tw
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