>Thinking in an LO as a live organism, failing and learning from those
>errors, a short term measure like the stock market performance in
>the last months may be misleading. Going further, the time period
>needed to have a significant metric should be at very least the time
>needed by the LO to learn and act accordingly to the accumulated
>knowledge. As it would be unreasonable to rank any organization
>for the last day's stock value, it makes no sense to rate a LO for a
>too short period of time.
Absolutely! The very essence of LO is that its is an adaptive strategy for
survival. Any attempt to measure it in current period bottom line results
would fail. This is not to say that there are not measures that can be
developed to assess whether LO behaviour is present in an organization. In
fact, without those, the correlation to success will always be subjective,
and open to debate as to the real root causes.
So we need to be able to categorize an organization objectively as a LO
and then track a group of LOs against a control goup of non- LOs to
establish the answer to the question. This would have to happen over an
extended period of time. Naturally the control group must be unbiassed for
there to be credibility with the results.
For the fun of it....Keith
Keith Cowan
kcowan@orion.GlobalDEN.com (CIS:72212,51)
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