At, you wrote:
>Then suddenly, I experienced this wonderful emergence: the relationship
>between the age of an organisation and the spirit of learning keeping it
>together. The oldest secular organisations in the world are our
>universities - more than 700 years old. Religious organisations which
>place a great emphasis on learning go back even much futher. The synagogue
>(rabbi=teacher) is probably the oldest organisation in the world! To
>create an organisation is one thing, but to ensure its longlevity is
>another thing. The LOs become the oldest.
Somewhere in my tacit learning playback machine, I remember someone saying
that every generation or every 30 years, every organization should disband
and recreate itself, start all over. Today that no longer applies,
because we must virtually do it every day.
Anyway, the spirit of learning can only stay alive, if we continue to push
the edge of the vision outward. The spirit dies when the organization
exists to perpetuate itself. When we fail to appreciate our limitations,
and try to conquer them, we cease to grow.
Thanks for your insights,
Ed Brenegar
Leadership Resources
edb3@msn.com
--"Ed Brenegar" <edb3@email.msn.com>
Learning-org -- An Internet Dialog on Learning Organizations For info: <rkarash@karash.com> -or- <http://world.std.com/~lo/>