Rol Fessenden wrote:
> If they [organizations] are so bad,
> why are we -- as individuals -- investing so much in them as opposed to
> other organizations?
Reading this I was reminded of the quandary posed about relationships at
the beginning of Wooody Allen's film, Annie Hall. He relates a joke
about a person who complains of a friend who thinks that he is a
chicken. When the psychiatrist asks why he doesn't just leave the
relationship, the man replies, "I need the eggs." Understandably, we all
focus on what we desire. Our need is to make do, to press on. The
companies that we commit to have many flaws but they are iterations. We
stick with them because there is an essential yearning satisfied -
partly. The exciting element for me si that we have this conversations
about what we want to be and how we think we can get there. We continue
the yearning of Lewin, McGregor, Argyris, Trist, Emery and so many
others. They did not get there either but such efforts have propelled us
all in a spiraling fashion - two steps forward, one to the side - closer
to a form that will better satisfy our desires.
--T.J. Elliott Cavanaugh Leahy http://idt.net/~tjell 914 366-7499
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