Replying to LO29075 --
Alan - we're talking widely across context
Organisations will be governed by rules (of counting whether they are
profitable and hopefully evaluating whether they keep all their
stakeholder promises) for the rest of my lifetime; as indeed is any system
Not to try to intervene in a system's rules when you feel they are all
wrong is actually my definition of irresponsible. This is a different
issue to how do you get large groups of people to vote democratically for
rules to organise around
It seems to me that if Systems people are unable to collate together a
register of the pattern rules that have experienced in life times of
intervening or facilitating organisational structures and designs then we
should close up shop
Admittedly I hate wrong rules as much as the next guy; and I hate the
implied power of rule makers who haven't transparently explained rules in
such detail that people elect them. And I think the whole area is rife
with presentation difficulties. The format we will be using in our
Transparency Standards book is to say upfront - dear reader here is a list
of clues (that may sound the opposite of how many powerful systems are
organised today). If you follow this book's mapping journey we'll make a
bet with you by the end you will feel that these clues should be rules in
any organization you have a stakeholder relationship with. (Indeed if it
wasn't for the trademark difficulty our favourite nickname for our mapping
standard would be blues-clues!)
cheers
chris macrae wcbn007@easynet.co.uk
co-author The Map that Changes Our World (Wiley 2003);mapping research
community at www.valuetrue.com
----- Original Message -----
>From: "Alan Cotterell" <acotrel@cnl.com.au>
>
> Sue, Personally I don't see the necessity for 'rules'. I believe I am
> intrinsically anti authoritarian, and when someone reads the 'riot act' to
> me I respond in accordance with my democratic rights.
--"Chris Macrae" <wcbn007@easynet.co.uk>
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