perhaps sometime it might be fruitful to have a conversation that
differentiates between the terms, "male and female" and "masculine and
feminine." The latter terms, as they are used to describe aspects of the
changing world model (at least the western world model) are quite
instructional. When we confuse stereotypical gender characteristics
(feminine and masculine) with gender itself, the resulting confusion tends
to be unhelpful in understanding the fundamental changes happening with
our culture and society.
tveatch wrote:
> With regard to Dorothy Martin's comments about the gender of strategic
> planning, Martha Rogers, a nursing theorist and more recently, Margaret
> Wheatly in "Leadership and the New Sciences" refer to the concepts of
> fields. Field theory suggests a force of unseen connections that
> influences employees' behavior - rather than as a message about some
> desired future state. This is why organizational vision is so necessary.
> I'm inclined to believe this "intuition" is more female in nature.
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