Kerr, Donald A <Donald.A.Kerr@USAHQ.UnitedSpaceAlliance.com> said:
(A lot of compassion and beauty cut here)
>I'm grateful. In my openness, I'm experiencing a fresh on-going renewal on
>the frontier of science and spirituality. Like John Dicus says, I too am
>a recovering engineer. I'm also a recovering Christian. A Zen-Christian
>Engineer, if you will, living in the present moment and grateful for
>dialogue and the chance to learn new perspectives. All of which help me
>discover my interdependent potential within and experience a deeper sense
>of compassion and beauty for the world around me. Without that, How can
>you truly learn?
In the words of Tom Peters, WOW.
In the words of W.E. Deming: what we have here, Luke, is profound
knowledge.
I think this thread is a breakthrough thread for the list. It is, for me, a
starting point for a dialogue on the essence of systems and the essence of
man's meaning: relationships. No man can have the same mind twice, and no
list can survive without breakthrough.
Senge quoted Deming at the Annual Quality Congress of ASQ(at that time)C in
Boston a few years ago. Deming was responding to a question from the
audience, to whit: "How long do we have to make the transformation?" Deming
replied: "As long as you live. No longer."
This and the Chinese pictograph "to learn" convinced me that Deming and
Senge had value for me. It is an infinite journey and we have the honor of
being the first group in modern history to make it as a team with no regard
for the space element of the space-time continuum. We are at one and the
same time everywhere on our small planet. This is most amazing.
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