I was very interested in Doc Holloway's posting on the links between
Capra's principles, the Five Disciplines and learning measurement.
At the moment, I am trying to work through how those connect with Robert's
The Natural Step (Pegasus recently published a very concise 16 pager on
the principles) and with Kees van der Heijden's Scenarios (which I have
not yet finished reading). van der Heijden writes of scenarios as an
element enabling strategic conversations for learning in the context of
alternative models of the outside world and an internalised 'business
idea'. One way of looking at Robert's contribution is as a simply
expressed but very rich conceptualisation of the essential dynamics of the
external environment, set out in a way that encourages shared
understanding of sound courses of action and which allows shared
assessment (if not measurement) of progress. From what I have read so
far, Scenarios seems to provide a powerful framework for bringing together
a whole lot of strands about the process of matching internal
understanding with the dynamics of the external environment.
Are there others thinking along the same lines?
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