Hierarchies, decision making and a real-life example

[Chris Corrigan]

chris macrae wrote:

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> Chris Macrae
> For 20 years researching social and organisational identities I was
> weary about measuring organisational relationships, but then the
> mathematician in me woke up. Measurements don't just determine what you
> get but what human systems compound. With deep respect (open communing
> once freed up everywhere that 95% of management techniques destroy it
> (to interpret a Harrison one-liner) is a far more creative/human thing
> than measurement) BUT its way too late to turn global valuation systems
> round UNLESS we change measurement around

This is really useful stuff Chris, because it gives me some language to
talk to the measure happy folks about the effect that internal health
and wellbeing has on an organization and a person.  And I like the work
on flow of course, in fact just last night I was reading a great
interview on Flow and Soul (http://www.wie.org/j21/csiksz.asp) with
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi who talks about the role of flow and soul in
human evolution.

But here's a question for the mathematician in you.  Is there anything
we can't measure?  Or is the mathematical model one that says only that
which is measurable is real?  I'm prepared to accept either answer, just
so you know this isn't a trick question.  It opens up an interesting
phenomenological conversation for me that has lots of implications for
my work with organizations.

So what do you think?

Chris







>
> So for example the direct answer to your OST question is very easy
>
> There are now standard batteries on the main emotions : happiness ,
> trust, courage etc
>
> Take those before and after an OST intervention in an organisation;
> happiness ought to go up if the intervention had anything to do with
> cultivating self-organising. Reason joy of learning is the number 1
> self-organising energy according to 15000 interview on Flow done at
> Peter Drucker's Claremont by a professor whose name I can never spell
> but is begins Csik.
>
> Turns out the positive win-win emotions are a good health check of how
> hi-trust relationships are being organised around here; and hi-trust
> (=goodwill) compounds the vast majority of any networked organisation's
> future
>
> SO
> More broadly with our open source work www.valuetrue.com   we feel
> confident that all you all need to do is tell a story that begins
> something like this:
>
> The Future is now measurable
> It is impossible to govern an interactive world by separable numbers.
> The harder you try the more likely you are to do an Andersen to your
> organisation's valuation. Moreover, without maps of organisational
> networks a strategy isn't interactively worth the paper its printed on.
>
> These mathematical facts present leadership teams with the greatest
> opportunities and threats ever to have confronted big organisations.
> Fortunately, the necessary transformation : mapping human relationships
> that connect goodwill systems together is very simple to do provided you
> cultivate a hi-trust climate and benchmark transparently with your
> biggest partners. Welcome to the Network Age of Value Multiplication of
> Business and Societal Organisational Designs. Sorry it took our systems
> club 21 years to work out the maths of global & local networking, but
> better late than never. chris & norman macrae
> Wcbn007 at easynet.co.uk
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