What I meant here is that in organizations there is a difference between what is true and what is valued. So "staying on top of things" is knowing random valued things in that instant. Someone can escalate or build consensus around a goal up the ranks, and now they will protect that goal even if it isn't worth protecting. In this situation, the consensus building process is just one of susceptible individuals adding to momentum (e.g. out of fear or ambition), not one where more eyes and brains perform something like peer review. One can make a living as a manager just watching things escalate an deescalate, and learn nothing about the world in the process. Same sort of wasted motion in fashion or popular music or the world of celebrity.
-----Original Message----- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of glen Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2016 9:42 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Tagged "Get off my lawn!" On 05/11/2016 06:45 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > Most us have to stay on top of things, though. Hopefully, though, it is not > the only thing. I wonder about the use of the word "have". A particular person with whom I'm currently forced to interact, keeps his nose stuck in his phone and ear buds in his ears all day every day. He claims he _has_ to do this because if he doesn't he grows anxious ... to the extent of panic attacks. He claims he needs constant stimulus for his emotional well-being. It's akin to the fasting experiments I started recently. Prior to those experiments, I thought I _had_ to eat every day. I felt like I got "hangry", as Renee's co-workers call it, where "low blood sugar" made one irritable. But by purposefully denying myself food for growing amounts of time, I discovered that I was simply addicted to my habits ... stuck in my comfort zone. I now believe the evidence (which I've always known about, but ignored) that people (including me) can live just fine for quite awhile without food. I wonder how many of us who have to stay on top of things, are similarly addicted. But then again, head hunters are not knocking down my door looking for expertise in things like Mean.io, either. 8^) -- ⛧ glen ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
