Replying to LO28278 --
Dear Organlearners,
Fred Nickols <nickols@att.net> writes:
>Then you notice that even these three are but
>parts of a larger stream of activity and that the
>roles of supplier, producer and customer are
>relative, not absolute.
Greetings dear Fred,
This sentence does not articulate knowledge, but sheer wisdom.
The (linked) loop between a system and its surroundings which involves
many systems there is just as important as the loops within a system
itself to keep it alive. Think as an example of the latter the vascular
system of your body. When your heart stops pumping, the loop gets broken.
Whenever an organisation stops acting as the heart of a vascular system
connecting to many other systems in its surroundings in a (linked) loop,
it is destined to die.
With care and best wishes,
--At de Lange <amdelange@gold.up.ac.za> Snailmail: A M de Lange Gold Fields Computer Centre Faculty of Science - University of Pretoria Pretoria 0001 - Rep of South Africa
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