In the new age of unreason, Charles Handy the author of The Age of Unreason
would say that discontinuous change is upon us. He would say that we
need to outsource everything that is not a core function of the
enterprise. And he would say that learning, is the same as change from a
different worldview.
In the words of Charles Handy:
"Learning is not finding out what other people already know, but is solving our own problems for our own purposes, by questioning, thinking and testing until the solution is a new part of our lives."
"If changing is, as I have argued, only another word for learning, then the theories of learning will also be theories of changing. Those who are always learning are those who can ride the waves of change and who see a changing world as full of opportunities rather than damages. They are the ones most likely to be the survivors in a time of discontinuity."
Adaptation in order to survive in the corporate world is nothing new. The risks associated with making new decisions depend on how that decision will impact the other persons, processes or systems in the enterprise.
It means observing performance and measuring the results, to determine if the change is worth the new risks that the organization is about to encounter...
Mark Zuckerberg came to Washington, DC, on Thursday to claim the mantle of Martin Luther King and the Founding Fathers as a champion of free speech. Standing in the stately Gaston Hall auditorium at Georgetown University—which has hosted the likes of Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Bono—the Facebook CEO declared, “I’m here today because I believe we must continue to stand for free expression.”Making changes is also about learning what those changes will mean, to everything that interfaces with that change. It means that testing must take place in a lab or compartmentalized area of the business to insure that the change doesn't impact the core operations.
And a city full of regulation-hungry politicians and foes of Big Tech undoubtedly thought: How’s that working out? --Ars Technica- -
In the words of Charles Handy:
"Learning is not finding out what other people already know, but is solving our own problems for our own purposes, by questioning, thinking and testing until the solution is a new part of our lives."
"If changing is, as I have argued, only another word for learning, then the theories of learning will also be theories of changing. Those who are always learning are those who can ride the waves of change and who see a changing world as full of opportunities rather than damages. They are the ones most likely to be the survivors in a time of discontinuity."
Adaptation in order to survive in the corporate world is nothing new. The risks associated with making new decisions depend on how that decision will impact the other persons, processes or systems in the enterprise.
It means observing performance and measuring the results, to determine if the change is worth the new risks that the organization is about to encounter...
