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In
a world of untrustworthy government and rampant big corporate corruption,
the deterioration of realms of honest business and management competence
is increasing. So, the first rule of survival of any creative
and competent manager or officer in any organization or institution
is this: Do not let other people in your organizational
circumstance tell you who you are. There is no
need to mindlessly drift into disaster through thoughtless conformity
to bad thinking patterns and wrong decision trends all around you. If
you have genuine creative intelligence and vigorous active competence,
then it is you and those like you that are keeping your organization
and your world in one piece.
Look
around you. How many people do you find who are unable to improve
their own consciousness, but who believe they can improve the consciousness
of others and even of the whole nation or the world? The organization
abounds in left-brain cynical critics. Who does not secretly
wish there were something better somewhere to go to? The contemporary
organization has become a virtual insane asylum where the patients
imagine they are doctors.
There
is less and less budget everywhere for improvement. In the few places
where there is budget for it, the views and choices on the subject
are unbelievably shallow and useless. This is because the usual
state of the brain/intellect lacks awareness. Any depth of understanding
would seem to be too time-consuming and impractical, which is just
a cover-up of actual shared incompetence. When people are unable
to learn, they decree learning to be unnecessary and wasteful. Hence,
the decision to buy in to false learning.
Real
possible improvements cost less to the organization than the false
programs, but they are more easily rejected because they do not appeal
to the wrong element in managerial brains, which is a faith in old
patterns of respectability in the field of improvement. Anything
new and better is treated with organized blindness. Thus, if
it is new, it is "untested", and if it is better, that cannot be "understood". Because
the better is better, it must by definition
be immediately incomprehensible, for comprehension would only come
with learning, which leads to improvement.
There
are many small, relatively unknown consultancies that can do wonderful
things for organization improvement. The reason they remain small
is that any of them that become big automatically become stupid, left-brained
and incompetent. The larger the consultancy, the greater its
reputation throughout the world, the more it will automatically be
a rip-off. Volumes could be written about this; some good volumes have been
written about this. But organizations do not learn from all this
for the same reason they do not learn from anything whatsoever, and
that reason is that the majority of power-possessing people in and
around the organization are incapable of genuine learning, as are the
majority of middle managers. Non-learning in the individuals
cannot combine as any form of collective learning initiative. Any
sort of supposed collective learning initiative will just be hype by
definition. The more popular a program is, the less it is worth. Mediocrity
is not high-valued. Unhappy non-learners really are the majority.
Gary
Chicoine
February 2004
©2004
Gary Chicoine
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