Louis Colorado questions using the stock market as a metric for whether a
learning organization "works". I would have to go a step further and ask,
indeed, is the stock market a meteric except as it affects the price of
capital and thus can endanger a company's ability to grow or even survive
if it is fiscally leveraged or intends to leverage itself in the market.
Thus, one might question the entire Myth of the differential value of a
company based on its tangible assets and its market price. Ian Angell, in
the latest issue of Information Strategy cogently argues that a large part
of the Knowledge Management effort is "manufactured" by consultants who
have a vested interest as old niche markets dry up. Since KM and LO are
closely tied to each other, this recent plunge in the market gives one
real pause to step back and ask whether corporations are not playing the
Straw Man to Baum's Wizard of Oz. If one remembers the scene in the book
where the Wizard says to the Straw man after restuffing his head with oat
straw, "Hereafter you will be a great man for I have given you a baran-new
brain". And Dorthy asks, "How do your feel?" to which the Straw man
replies, "when I get used to my brain, I shall know everything!"
thoughts
tom abeles
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