Steve Barnett posted, in LO14912:
>However, thank you Scott Ott for suggesting that the truth of
>organisational learning is not in spiritual-self, self-centredness,
>self-analysis, self-understanding or self-anything, but in purposeful
>selflessness like that born of faith in God through Jesus Christ.
which puts me WAY off-balance.
I don't think Steve is suggestion that people or organizations not
"bofiGtJC" cannot have any attributes of a Learning Organization nor that
all people who profess "bofiGtJC" do have all of those attributes.
I don't want to start a flame war or another of those holier than thou
discussions but we need to continually recognize that this list and
organizations of ALL types throughout the world can share LO attributes
without having to adhere to a single particular dogma.
Guess my belief is that a dogma runs in the face of LO principles and also
those of critical reflection, continuous continuous improvement and
personal growth and development.
For me, it is all about broadening perspectives and generative learning,
which often comes from a diversity of beliefs and experiences. It IS
about self-reflection and being ctritical of organizational structures
that are regarded, generally incorrectly, as Truth and Reality from those
organizational leaders who are often isolated from the reality of how
things are really working.
I'm reminded of the client organization whose top leadership expoused,
with positive intentions, this as a Mission / Vision / Belief for their
organizational betterment program:
"We manage with uncompromising integrity."
and whose workers "remodeled it to reflect more of what actually happens:
"We manipulate with inflexible rightousness."
Faith in Leadership is sometimes a problem.
Learning Organization would seem to directly relate to the desire to make
changes and flexibility. May we live in interesting and non-dogmatic
times,
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