Replying to LO26204 --
Andrew writes:
> What is this place searching for then? And why?
To paraphrase Deming, you never get out of this hospital. That is, once on
the path of improvement, you are forever pushing the wheel of travail on
an upward incline; the Summit is a fiction, albeit a beacon whose wick we
light, because we're human. And to err is human.
So, this particular site is contemplative mostly. We synthesize, we
consciously and unconsciously see justification for what we already think
and do, we search.
Back in the good old days, some years ago, when there were just a few
hundred postings Rick had moderated through to us, there was considerably
more discussion about ideas in action, in the realm of describable human
endeavor, transaction -- like business.
I'm on the hunt. I look for tidbits in your writings which show
application, some modicum of success, feedback, reiteration, experience
gleaned from the next turn of the improvement cycle.
So dearest Andrew, my take on what and why comes down to selective
viewing. I'm an organizational consultant focused on business complexity
where four factors, among others, are at play and so often cause gridlock:
where proliferating opportunities, "shrinking" time in which to decide,
organizational change, and explosion of information often meet. For all my
soulfulness (ha!), I have to make a buck, as they say. So, what I look for
are ideas which mitigate loss of competitive advantage in providing
customers with value-added products/services; which shorten the time and
reduce the effectiveness associated with making complex decisions that
support growth strategies (THAT word has been parsed a bit, eh?); which
lessen the hindrance of authority structure in an organization trying to
develop new opportunities to make money while serving others with
products/services; and which allow an organization to seize in a timely
way the right opportunity among the many which occur outside the
organization's standard cycle business cycles. It's tough. There ARE
tools, we know.
Lest I forget that Rumi is chuckling slowly in the next room:
If you want what visible reality
can give, you're an employee.
If you want the unseen world,
you're not living your truth.
Both wishes are foolish,
but you'll be forgiven for forgetting
that what you really want is
love's confusing joy.
You currently live in the eye that beholds these words. That eye will
close, you'll die. "Rick's group" is a breathing on this side of that
change. Gather what we can, make it a birthing ;-}
Later,
Barry
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