Replying to LO30364 --
Hello Chris,
Behind the frustration in your message, I sense deep thoughts on the
forces of relationships. I have the impression that you work with some
sort of formula of 'knowledge generation', where 5 factors are involved:
> For me this points to the disastrous con-trick of organization today. The
> organization (and if you like its management or mismanagement) is only one
> of 5 multipliers of knowledge and productivity
>
> There are 2 below the organisation level and 2 above
>
> Below comes from Drucker's knowledge worker-
[the individual]
> Then interactions of individuals (their networks, teams, practice
> communities etc0 is also a multiplier
>
> Above the organisation, we have networks of organisations (systems of
> systems)
>
> And we also have the democratic level of all the learning and other
> infrastructures that any country or city or place invests in
What I distract from your words is a kind of fractal construction starting
with the smallest entity (the individual) and ending with the 'world wide
web' of relationships and communities. Surely it must be an attempt to
consider the whole.
However, it is not (yet) clear for me how your formula looks like. I once
wrote on this list a contribution on a certain kind of formula of the
whole. I argued that the whole is not the better result of the sum of its
parts, but the result of the product of its parts. With a product like A x
B x C the best results will be reached with equal factors. As soon as one
is less and the other is evenly more, the end product is less.
You seem to work with five factors. Please, could you give me a clue what
you have in mind? And what puzzles me too is how these factors are
directly related to the generation of knowledge (which is in my view in
the individual).
Leo Minnigh
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