Replying to LO29052 --
Dear Organlearners,
Mike Jay <coach@leadwise.com> writes:
>I guess any time someone brings up a hierarchy there
>are those that would respond in a deficiency-based
>way to polarize the issue, so perhaps I'll either add
>fuel to the fire or become part of it.<G>
Greetings dear Mike,
I see that you have added a grin to your comment.
I myself would have added a <T> (for tears). This is not intended to
polarize you comment. <G> It is because what you have written is so true
for many organisations. With this polarization also comes the inability to
resolve these polarities into a higher ordered level of thinking -- a
deeper level of awareness some would say. This is the reason for the <T>.
The bigger the organisations get with more hirarchial orders in them, the
worse this polarisation seems to get. Take a nation as example of such a
very big organisation. See how, year after year, the same old
polarizations prevent that nation to emerge into a higher level of
nationhood.
For a few years under the leadership of Nelson Mandela the South African
nation seemed to have emerged into a higher level of nationhood. But I
think that it has shifted back into many of its old ways. So what did
Mandela do? I think he was very much aware of increasing the wholeness of
South Africans. Time and again he surprised South Africans with his
holistic deeds and thereby set profound examples. Sadly, the leaders
around him had not the same awareness to wholeness.
>Since I started this, my summary and attempt/contempt
>is to draw specific distinctions between what happens
>in a person, business and network explicitly as it manifests
>the implicate order.
David Boehm concluded that without sufficient wholeness, the explication
of the implicate order cannot happen. The implicate lack it and the
explicate cannot feign it. Mandela certainly illustrated it.
With care and best wishes
--At de Lange <amdelange@postino.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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