Replying to LO29364 --
Andrew said:
> You just warmed up beautifully and then,
>
> " I'd better stop here before this becomes more than an email. I think the
> right approach to KW productivity involves the cultivation of passion..."
>
> Snip.
>
> Please ;-) ...some "essential )i( sing" of the term 'e-mail' ... > ? ;-)
Hi Andrew and others,
Perhaps it should be "essentialitizing" from essentialities? I like it.
Don't worry, I CAN take a joke ;-) but you still made me think of a few
serious issues...
1. My use of "e-mail" here came from the notion that if you tell somebody
to send you an e-mail, you don't expect to receive the equivalent of 5
type-written pages. My label "e-mail" here comes from sureness in two
ways. First, the email is part of the LO list structure, so few would have
the time or even appreciate anything longer than what I had already
written. Second, knowing myself I identified at that point a wall after
which I would find difficulty expressing clear and meaningful points in a
reasonably well defined whole without considerable effort. A sort of
"where do we go from here?" feeling.
2. Anyway, your words made me think of the importance of keeping in mind
that our definitions of things are ostensive more than they are formal
(try to make a formal definition of an e-mail.....) This again tells us
how important it is to study things, not by their formal definitions, but
by examples and non-examples in order to know what they really are. From
very clear examples and non-examples, to those that are very close in
content (examples very similar to non-examples and vice versa.)
Essentialitizing then, is the study of systems in order to identify
examples and non-examples of the 7Es.
3. Ostensive definitions are another way of looking at how communication
fails in organizations. At mentioned earlier that poor communication
results from differences in the content of knowledge in different
individuals at the different levels (sensory, tacit, formal, etc.). We
could also say that different words/concepts have different meaning to
different people because the contexts (examples) they have seen them used
in differ.
Terje
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