Four Principles, One Law - and organisations (was half-way technology)

[Artur Silva]

Marei

Your post is very interesting. You came to two points
that are very important to me, are closelly related,
and are not normally referred.


--- Marei Kiele <MareiKiele at web.de> wrote:
>
> To me, it all comes down to honesty. Honesty to
> myself and to others.

The most important point IMO of Argyris and Schon's
Model 1 (the prevailing model of acting in our society
and organizations) is that we are conditioned to "play
games" and not being honest anymore. Learn to behave
in Model 2 implies to unlearn the Model 1 that we have
been condictioned to follow.

I am not talking about respecting "moral rules" or
talking (too much) about God, but about "being honest"
and "being open" - following Kant's ethical
imperative: do to anyother what you would like to see
as an universal behaviour.

And

> That's it for me:
> The interactive, learning, conscious open space
> organisation is not an
> organisation but a community. What do you think?

Apart from a small detail (bellow) I agree with you:
a living (open, etc) organization will be no longer a
"formal organization" but a community.

The point I disagree is the expression "conscious open
space organization". I don't want a "counscious honest
person". I want an "honest person", full stop.
Someone that is honest even in the uncoscious.
Identically I want "uncousncious open space
organizations". Being (only) counsciously honest
(open) is NOT ENOUGH.

Regards

Artur






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