Replying to LO26099 --
Hi Doug,
>It has been a while since I read the paper but as I remember the general
>theme, in Management's continual quest to apply past learning's to
>increase efficiency, the natural outcome is to reduce the organization's
>complexity and, in doing so, the capacity to adapt to environmental
>change.
I have just stumbled over "the natural outcome is to reduce the
organization's complexity". I would have expected "the natural outcome is
to reduce the complexity of the organization's environment". This is not
saying that you have misunderstood Danny Miller, it is just what I would
have expected. Another articulation of what I have in mind would be: "the
natural outcome is to reduce the organization's confusion", but I prefer
the first one, because the second implies that already too much of
environments complexity has entered the organization without sufficient
organizing. This degrades management into reactive "cleaners", while
constructive creation and building of organizations should be the focus of
management.
Liebe Gruesse,
Winfried
--"Winfried Dressler" <winfried.dressler@voith.de>
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