--- Harrison Owen <hho...@comcast.net> wrote: > Thanks Jack for new learning. I didn't know that you > could get Google to do > definitions.
Seredentipious learning, wasn't it? > Faculty of making discoveries by accident. > Serendipity has been recently > used in connection with Internet, since the large > quantity of information > available provides chances to find unexpected > relevant information while > surfing the web. The Internet has maybe accelerated semething that was already there. How many times one has discovered something by reading or seeing something completelly different from our normal interests, that suddently gave us a clue for a problem different from the one we were thinking about (or for one we were not considering at all)? Hence: --- Eva P Svensson <e...@epshumaninvest.se> wrote: > This list is really what I use to tell people - this > is a living example of a learning organization that > so many management gurus have written about and so > many companies has tried to create. And I have not > yet seen one truly learning organization in real > life in an organisation but for me this is one good > example. Even though friends of order would say, > -"is this list an organization?" - well maybe not by > definition but it sure has the "good" qualities of a > such I think. Openness, willing to learn and share, > and a treasure of knowledge.. And lots of more... If we consider, as I do, that a LO is NOT one that respects some 5 disciplines (Senge), but one (company) that proves that it is able to learn as it survives for centuries (de Geus), then openness (to learn permanently), free sharing of opinions, etc are necessary preconditions for LO's. But I also believe that this is so, because those conditions open the way for learning that occurs by serendipity. After all, single-loop-learning is not and double-loop-learning is normally learning that occurs "out of the box", and seredenpity is, by definition, one way to look out of the box(es). And, yes, OST is a good tool for sustaining an LO and the same is true about this list - even if a list is not an organization which is not very important for this point. Regards from rainy Lisbon Artur __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist