Replying to LO27780 --
Dear Organlearners,
Leo Minnigh <l.d.minnigh@library.tudelft.nl> writes:
>Well, to satisfy you, At, consider them as
>'leermeester-stukken' (learning master pieces).
>Here we encounter one of the problems with
>the English language, I need brackets to link
>words. I mean '(learning master) pieces', and
>not 'learning (master pieces)'.
Greetings dear Leo,
We have a powerful rule in my mother tongue Afrikaans which I think you
have in Dutch too. Write words separately where you can, but connect them
where you must. ("Skryf los waar jy kan en vas waar jy moet".) For
example, I will write "free energy" in Afrikaans not as "vrye energie",
but as "vryenergie"
>>>2. Why is a leader necessary?
>I still don't know. And I like to know the thoughts
>of you, LO'ers.
While replying to another contribution on the "collective soul"
which each ant in a colony has, it struck me that this could also
be a reason why an organisation has to have leaders. Please
not the singular for organisation and plural for leader!
>>>3. Is the leader the member of an organisation with
>>>the highest available amount of free energy?
>>
>>I cannot answer this one definitively. For
>>example, the leader will need a vast amount
>>of personal free energy to maintain the status
>>of the organisation when its members lack learning.
>>...... [snip]
>
>The reply of At is most interesting. My thoughts
>went to other directions. I realised that question 3)
>is a complex one. I was thinking of the question
>WHERE COULD WE LOCATE THE PLACE OF
>HIGHEST FREE ENERGY IN A SYSTEM?
Thank you Leo for bringing your thoughts back to us. This is a vital
question for leaders to answer. All changes need freeenergy (yes, I
applied the rule described above ;-). Each change needs its own peculiar
amount of free energy. When there is not enough free energy for that
change, the change will not happen spontaneously, although it might still
happen by force applied by an external source having enough free energy.
The "enough free energy" is the necessary condition for changes. The
"enough 7Es" is the sufficient condition for changes. Both canditions
apply to all changes.
>Unfortunately, I am not so handy in producing
>the type of graphs that At produces.
I think we have to thank Rick for making it possible for us to view such
graphs. Here is a trick which some fellow learners might not know. Click
with the right mouse button on the URL of the picture and another copy of
Explorer will be opened so that the copy with the text does not get
replaced.
>If we think of companies, I am not sure how the
>growth of a company is distributed. Is the centre
>with the leader or management team growing in
>the same rate as the periphery of the company?
Sometimes it is faster and sometimes it is slower ;-) Whatever the case,
in an OO (Ordinary Organisation it usually leads to conflicts. A noticable
outcome is the high turnover in members, workers and mangers alike. In a
LO (Learning Organisation) this begs for Team Learning (inter and intra).
>I mentioned Cheops, because I thought that its
>strong form and the fact that there is a lot of
>mystery around it, Cheops would trigger the
>imagination of the list members.
It certainly triggered my imagination. St Peter in 2:6 of his first
epistle refers to Jesus as the "akrogoniaion". It got translated in
English as "corner stone" ("hoeksteen"). The Greek word "akron" means "at
the far end" or "the highest point". The word "gonia" means "corners". The
suffix "-ion", if I remember it correctly, makes a diminutive of the noun.
Thus "akrogoniaion" means literally "little corners at the highest end".
>But what keeps my mind busy is that all those
>scientists (like Pooh :-)) are searching for the
>North pole. Is it not much more 'logic' and much
>more simple in that sunny land to look for the
>South? Why are the pyramids oriented to the
>north, and not to the south???
Perhaps it is because the North Pole is closer to them ;-)
The South Pole is in the Southern Hemisphere (SH). People living in the SH
are often considered to be inferior to people living in the NH (Northern
Hemisphere). The "often" means that not all NH people think so, but also
that far to many of them think so an act accordingly. It is especially so
for many leaders in the NH.
I think this is why the South Pole is also suffering ;-)
Leo, have you ever seen an authentic upside-down map, i.e., one with the
south pole on top and the names upside for this map. We can turn every map
upside down, but then all the names are also upside down. This is how too
many leaders try to see things from the view point of the followers. They
turn the map through 180 degrees, but neglect to print the letters upright
for this case. They rather accept the already printed letters, find them
upside down too, and then quickly turn the map back again. So is it with
leaders who try to understand their followers by way of rote learning. The
letters appear upside down.
With care and best wishes,
--At de Lange <amdelange@gold.up.ac.za> Snailmail: A M de Lange Gold Fields Computer Centre Faculty of Science - University of Pretoria Pretoria 0001 - Rep of South Africa
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