Replying to LO29555 --
After deliberate badwill, all the greatest organisational blindnesses to
wholeness are caused by blind certainty in numbers and the financial
apartheids this causes:
they separate business units
they stop knowledge sharing or boundaryless
they can cause a consumer in a global market to pay the tax of 60
different units each perfectly efficient for taking its own toll but awful
as a whole
they separate into quarters stuff that has dynamic system impacts like
relationships or which Leeson-type behaviors you reward by short-term
periods
they encourage people to cover up risks rather than admit mistakes; most
disasters have a human element; and yet we dont have systems that permit
people to own up early
- they excel business models to nth decimal points which bury all the
human assumptions
- they turn words inside out like customer relationship management which
is usually transactions, and Shareholder Value Analysis which usually
ruins pensioners to delight of speculators
they provide numbers algorithms for intangibles which as the referred
paper said are actually the human connections whose value isnt in their
parts
they only put monetary values on everything whereas learning and social
responsibility ought to be core top what leaders cultivate
they bury preferred futures in planning (ie replicating more of the past)
with you guessed it more numbers; they dilute unique context patterns
they destroy trust and relationship reciprocity by rewarding he who
transacts even as he promises a relationship
they are the root cause of many conflicts between global and local
cultures; they also used to support obscene ideas like marketing can only
be economically about image/celebrity rather than promoting real human
causes
they pretend risk etc is additive whereas its more like multiplicative as
andersen found out; if you totally ruin your relationship credibility with
one stakeholder (in their case society) you get zeroised even if it was
only one rotten relationship with another stakeholder that was your fault
so why is it being systems people we do not all turn on numbers; rather
than develop more complex explanations?
chris macrae ba maths 1st class
www.valuetrue.com open system goverance not numbers
http://www.learning-org.com/docs/021101_Macrae.pdf
--"Chris Macrae" <wcbn007@easynet.co.uk>
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