> Roy Benford, you mentioned connections between the Quaker movement and
> Learning Organizations. I feel that connection, but haven't seen anything
> explicit written about it. Do you know of anything written?
A Georges L Rommes paper "Organizational Learning, Circularity and
Double-linking" published in management Learning, 1997, Vol.28(2), Pages
149-160. Also, he links Organisational Learning with Ackoff's democratic
organisation.
I find the Quaker link interesting because I see similarities between a
Quaker business meeting, the Talking Stick and William Isaacs's Dialogue.
Although I feel that Isaacs confuses censensus with compromise in his
paper published in Organizational Dynamics.
Roy Benford
Fulmer, UK
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