Replying to Barry in LO1520 "There's something cold about Simon's world"
The unorganized world only looks threatening and cold to those people who
view it using outmoded organized terms. You are not the first to question
the type of world we are increasingly living in. In fact the unorganized
world is a wonderful world in which each individual can realize their
dream- within or outside of organizational contexts (See 10 great truths
about unorganization at www.unorg.com/10gt.htm)
How can a world in which disscussion of issues such as "abuse and personal
mastery" is mere busyness be a cold one? We can choose to avoid abuse
because only our minds constrain our mobility. It is the organized world
which is increasingly obscure and even obscene. We the individuals
navigate ourselves around like lemmings doing what we are told where we
are told when we are told within our organizational contexts out of all
balance with the other things which are important in our lives. And you
call my world cold!!!!???
I apologize for not getting my positive message across but I am at the
stage in my research where I am still expressing my inherent
dissatisfaction with traditional organized structures and suggesting
alternatives such as downstructuring for existing companies and
collapsible corporations for new ones.
My next book "trans: shaping interactions in the unorganized world" is
much softer and more positive in that it starts out with the assumption
that traditional institutions and therefore collective common contexts no
longer exist- and describes when to chat up and when to shut up in such a
world open to spontaneous collaborations! Trust me, it will be a great
one!!
Thanks for strongly disagreeing- only if we are forced to challenge the
very assumptions on which we frame our contexts and operate our lives,
will we ever achieve the pre-requisite openness necessary for deep
learning. Ask not how best to shape teams or organize our companies, ask
whether they are necessary at all.
Regards, sincerely simon buckingham, www.unorg.com, buck@dial.pipex.com
unoranization: business not busyness!
--Simon Buckingham <go57@dial.pipex.com>
Learning-org -- An Internet Dialog on Learning Organizations For info: <rkarash@karash.com> -or- <http://world.std.com/~lo/>