Muddling Through

[Funda Oral]

Another opinion would be to show the management that "planning and control"
gets very costly, ineffective and not profitable after some limit.

The opposite is not the mess but flexibility, dynamism.

That's how I see "muddling through".....plan, decide but always be
ready to revise it according to changes.

It's more intelligent for a company to invest  (time and money) to receive
feed back and info
from inside and outside and to plan accordingly rather then insisting on
budgets, plans and
means of control and security

----- Original Message -----
From: "Harrison Owen" <hhowen at comcast.net>
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Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 2:24 PM
Subject: Re: Muddling Through


> Chris wrote: Why is management that says it wants to innovate so afraid of
> mess?
>
> I guess that is pretty simple. Most managers are trained and paid to avoid
> messes. Not too long ago (and maybe still) the shorthand answer to the
> question: What is good management? -- was "Make the plan, manage to the
> plan, and meet the plan." In short -- always be in control and never make
a
> mess. Your Mother wouldn't like it and neither will your Boss.
>
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> From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of chris
> macrae
> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 1:46 PM
> To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
> Subject: Re: Muddling Through
>
> Maybe I mis-worded what I was trying to say. Why is it we live in a
> world where an organisation that asks for consultant or facilitation
> help expects first a proposal that makes everything look neat and
> controllable rather than one that says well the messes we will need to
> go through before we will have a chance of knowing what next to do are:
> ...
> I think I met a comfort in terms of confidence in understanding that
> mess is the first step into any real innovation; ideally confidence to
> rip up crap proposals of the sort that make innovation sound tidy and
> controllable before you start...
>
> Why is management that says it wants to innovate so afraid of mess?
>
> Cheers
> chris
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of
> Harrison Owen
> Sent: 04 November 2004 18:03
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> Subject: Re: Muddling Through
>
> Chris -- I think helping them to feel comfortable with the mess may be
> wasted effort. I think a more productive approach might be to help them
> to
> see there is no option -- and then get on with the business. Actually, I
> think the very dis-comfort of the moment may be the most useful thing
> going
> down just now.
>
> Harrison
>
> Harrison Owen
> 7808 River Falls Drive
> Potomac, Maryland   20845
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