John,
Your metaphore of organization as electrical circuit brought a few
thoughts to mind. Herbert A. Shepard has a list of "Rules of Thumb for
Change Agents," one of which is "Light Many Fires." "...If many
interdependent sybsystems are catalyzed and the change agent brings them
together to facilitate one another's efforts, the entire system can begin
to move." This concept fits with adding resistances in parallel.
--"John P. Crutcher" <john.p.crutcher@boeing.com>
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