John Constantine wrote:
> The intriguing question of why we come together as we are wont to do in
> organizations leads me to offer my own observation, subject as always to
> future revision and critique.
One of the characteristics of human organizing is how we each redefine,
create, regenerate, sustain and withdraw within the organizational
context. Recalling chaos theory, specifically that the movements of
chaotic systems are attracted to strange shapes (called strange
attractors); and, that strange attractors have an overal predictability,
but that the details are unpredictable. If each person can be defined as
a chaotic system, acting with others in larger chaotic systems, then we
each will color our (forgive the pun) strange attraction for organizations
with those metaphors, analogies and similes that are most personal and
that most readily rationalize our circumstances.
regards,
Doc
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