Rol wrote in LO15918:
> My question is, of course, can an individual ever reach their _real_ true
> potential as an isolated individual outside of any organization? Or, to
> go one step further, what exactly _is_ an individual who is a part of
> absolutely no organization? Is that a hermit?
Rol, thanks for your post- it is my belief that today and certainly soon
membership of an organization is in no way a pre-requisite for an
individual to reach their full potential. This is ensured by the existence
of the four fundamental forces underpinning the unorganized world
(described in "trans"): contestable markets, voluntary exchange principle,
transaction costs and bounded rationality/ limited understanding and
control. In some ways my entire world view hangs upon this question- as
does the answer to "Why do we create organizations?"- what are the
advantages of being in a company and which of these advantages cannot be
replicated in more dynamic market-based organizational forms?
I know personally for my own discoveries that the advantages of having a
"secure" "stable" job no longer exist anyway and are not worth the
imbalance towards work effort and company loyalty they imply in this
downsized age. It is certainly viable for me to live and thrive outside
all formal membership static bodies, and I see mo reason why it cannot be
so for everyone- providing they embrace explicitely or implicitely the
unroganization mindset.
By the way, I do not take the contrarian view deliberately- it is of
course the way I feel. I find I respond better to things I don't agree
with than those I do, hence, i may come across as argumentative or
difficult. I guess we learn by listening to how our hearts respond to
events from others and then using our heads to try and articulate those
feelings. Too often though, we float on the surface of life and supress
these inner true feelings- repeating received wisdom and not questioning
events- we need to get back to the fundamentals! And too often it is too
difficult to clearly reflect what our hearts are saying. But then again,
if you accept those feelings as being our true beliefs, the struggle for
articulation is a noble one and we are on the right road, whatever the
misunderstandings that arise on the way.
regards sincerely simon buckingham
http://www.unorg.com
unorganiztion: business not busyness!
--Simon Buckingham <go57@dial.pipex.com>
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