Patrick:
Although I am not a hard-line devotee of Charles Handy, I respect his
brilliant intellect--there is no doubt that his thinking acts to inform my
own understanding. I also recommend the books you suggested. And, yes,
there is a great deal of similarity in how I use the term ethos as does
Handy. I do, however, attempt to deconstruct ethos so that I can perceive
it in ways that are as devoid of 'right' and 'wrong' as possible--I'm more
interested in understanding it in terms of 'sense' and 'nonsense'--whereas
Handy tends to imply a moral code.
Cheers, Arnold
psue@inforamp.net wrote:
> On this subject I would suggest that you read Charles Handy's books, "Age
> of Unreason" and "Age of Paradox". In these, he talks of the "shamrock"
> organization, which consists of a core group which has all the essential
> knowledge that represents the "ethos" of the organization, PLUS the
> outsourced functions (which are the leaves of the shamrock). I believe I
> am using the word "ethos" as Arnold Wytenburg intended as per his post
> L021117.
--Arnold Wytenburg <arnold@originalthinking.com>
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