Tom Abeles wrote:
"How many years did it take the dinos to go extinct. How long has the US
been a country from sea-to-shining sea. Within the scope of human
existance what is the life of a corporation and why is it so important."
This reminded me of a George Carlin HBO concert a few years back. He
thought the entire concept of man ruining the Earth preposterous. After
billions of years of floods, ice ages, molten lava, meteors, tectonic
shifts, and more, who are we to think we can destroy the Earth?It's a
powerful way of thinking, and puts things into perspective.
Unfortunately, it's a perspective so broad that it could keep us from
living in our little sliver of time.
I suspect that Tom is right about corporations as we know them being, if
not terminal, at least not immortal as organizing principles. So far, all
of the predictions of the end of history have been premature.
Nonetheless, it doesn't mean that what we do in the realm of learning
organizations is life support. Rather, it may be part of the process of
decay and renewal - lo's could be the parasite which helps turn an old,
dying organism into a something new.
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Barak Rosenbloom
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US Dept. of Labor, Seattle
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