Replying to LO28062
Dear Fred, dear LO-learners:
At 13:13 26-03-2002, Fred Nickols wrote:
>So, to answer your question directly, At, "Yes," I think people who pick
>up Senge's book and the Fieldbook then march happily and naively off into
>transformation land are engaging in rote problem solving.
Agreed...
>Finally, what's really interesting to me about all this ruminating is that
>I couldn't think of a single instance of the successful conversion of an
>OO into an LO. Can anyone point me to such example? Are there case
>studies of such successes? If this has in fact been done and something
>has been learned from doing it, why isn't that learning at the forefront
>of my own thinking. I must be ignorant.
You are, I am, we are... I am looking forward to see how many examples
will be pointed out...
Isn't it interesting that we are in a list where the topic of discussion
is LOs, and the conversion from OOs into LOs is the biggest problem (and,
supposedly, the one that the 5 disciplines promised to solve) and we can't
easily remember a single example where that "conversion" happened?
That is something that only happens in the management field (perhaps also
in astrology, politics and eventually in "religious sciences" - but not in
any formal science): a "theory" has a lot of supporters, but no one can
remember a single instance that confirms the theory...
Regards
Artur
--"Artur F. Silva" <artsilva@mail.eunet.pt>
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