Replying to LO27988 --
Lear Dearners,
The situation is hopeless but not serious - Paul Watzlawick.
Drawbacks with regards to what? To whom? When and where? It depends on
your perspective, your vantage point. The LO, as published in The Fifth
Discipline, showes five not-so-new disciplines that can improve
co-operation and results in organisations. The biggest draw-back is that
it a new paradigm. In the same way that Quantum Physics didn't abolish
Classical Mechanics, a LO didn't make an end to "classical organisations".
The role of change changed in the transition from CM to QM, or better, our
ideas of the role of change changed. Our invention of nuclear fusion
didn't change the sun a bit.
In a LO there are other ideas on change too, now on organisational change.
They are here called "learning". Because a LO has a self-referential
component - it is about people, organizing - the change in the ideas about
organizing did (or should i say do?) changed the classical organisation.
We have still a lot to learn from this change in change and many people
feel insecure with it.
A traditional organisation is serious but not hopeless. A LO is not
serious, and not hopeless. Then there are two other organisations: an
ISO-lated organisation, which is serious and hopeless and there are people
who are not serious and hopeless.
Hope it helped,
Jan
elixabete escalona wrote:
> I think I am going to place a "tricky" request. I feel it is somehow easy
> to identify the disadvantages that the implementation of ISO may imply.
> However, I never heard/read about the disadvantages of the LO (apart from
> the comments of the ISO consultants).
>
> I would really appreciate if you could explain or list disadvantages or
> drawbacks of the LO.
--With kind regards - met vriendelijke groeten,
Jan Lelie
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