Kenoli & Lin, thanks for your words. I read them with great comfort. Bernhard
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002 13:16:39 -0800, kenoli Oleari wrote: >Lin -- I'm hoping for some more thoughts from the list, also. This >issue affects us on a difficult level, because most of the consulting >work that is available comes from a perspective that only takes into >account the immediate internal needs of a client. This affects the >way we make money. It is the unusual client that moves to a higher >level in its thinking. Some of our icons like Meg Wheatley have >decided to stop practicing for this reason, but they are at a point >in their career when they can either afford this or attract plenty of >other kind of work. I'm noticing how many of my colleagues accept >whatever work is available and get good at it and then periodically >melt down feeling like what they are doing is not feeding them. Some >even get confused and surprised and not sure what to do when a client >comes along that is willing to take a broader perspective. > >As world citizens, it is an issue for us about how we are going to >carry the dialog about the future of the planet forward in our work. >After all, where else does this work get done than in our everyday >lives. And yet as hired consultants, the system seems to place the >decision about how this conversation is focused in the hands of the >people hiring us, people who have a very rarified interest and who >are financially driven to look at the situation with a different >priority than that of the global system. This is especially >important for those working predominantly in a business setting as >business is having a greater and greater influence on the future of >everyone and everything. It is not as though business goes on in one >place and then the work that affects our futures goes on somewhere >else. This is it. > >Kenoli > > > >>Hi Kenoli: you have given me so much to think about. I don't have >>the time >>today to really think through your comments or to add anything - >>however I >>thought it important to post with you that the issue of putting >>walls around >>the ' whole ystem' of a company (a contradiction in terms) so that >>it can >>exclude issues like environmental degradation and exploitation of >>local >>populations has sat brewing with me for some time and I've pushed >>it to one >>side. So now its out ! I'll get back on line in a couple of days >>- in the >>meantime, I'm looking forward to hearing from our OS colleagues. >> >>Lin Grist >>Chrysalis Consulting >>UK >> >>* >>* >>========================================================== >>[email protected] >>------------------------------ >>To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, >>view the archives of [email protected], >>Visit: >> >>http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html > > >-- >Kenoli Oleari, Horizons of Change, http://www.horizonsofchange.com >1801 Fairview Street, Berkeley, CA 94703 Voice Phone: 510-601- >8217, >Fax: 510-595-8369, Email: [email protected] (or click on: >mailto://[email protected]) > >* >* >========================================================== >[email protected] >------------------------------ >To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, >view the archives of [email protected], >Visit: > >http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html > ----- [email protected] 06.02.2002 at 09:28:48 (GMT/UT + 02:00) My anti-virus precautions: 1) attached to this e-mail : No file 2) All attached files are mentioned by name in the line above.Please do not open any other attachment! 3) Please send text documents in RichTextFormat/*.rtf, if possible ---- Bernd Weber Organization Development Consultant "DEVELOP YOUR CAPACITIES - MATERIALIZE YOUR VISION" C.P. 1462, Beira, Sofala, MOZAMBIQUE fone: +258-3-32 98 59, cellfone:+258-82-43 79 77 ----- WB-TrainConsult management- & human resources training, consulting & development ----- Gumpendorfer Straße 88b/18, AT-1060 Wien, AUSTRIA fone & fax: +431 596 86 57 ----- Inscricao no grupo de discussao "Sistemas organizacionais": Escrever um email para o endereco <[email protected]> * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
