Replying to LO27554 --
Rol:
My thoughts on what you say are to agree with it. As you know, I called
attention to the emergent nature of learning in human social systems,
which means that it is NOT a mechanical phenomenon -- it's an emergent,
nonlinear one. I have tried to illustrate this using a learning
organization simulator I built and placed on my website some time ago:
http://www.macroinnovation.com/simulation.htm If you go to this link,
you'll see that tinkering with learning-related policies in a firm has
impact on the rate and quality of learning and innovation, but the process
is anything but mechanical. If a practitioner fails to internalize
knowledge of the emergent nature of learning, and instead slips into a
pattern of applying mechanistic models -- or models mechanistically -- he
or she will never succeed. This principle is to LO practitioners what
Newtonian physics is to an engineer. Awareness of and allegiance to it is
critical.
Regards,
Mark
Rol Fessenden wrote:
> Mark,
>
> I have two minds on this. On the one hand, it seems that a process
> evaluation such as the SA... evaluations would be useful. On the other
> hand, I have seen too many of these be used mechanically and in a
> manipulative fashion so as to avoid the end result while appearing to work
> toward it. What are your thoughts on this?
>
> Rol
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