Dr. Peter Meier
Zürich (Switzerland)

 Reframing Knowledge Work

APS.gif (1053 bytes)

 

Same Level:

[Home]
[Up]
[Management]
[Bottleneck]
[Knowledge]
[Meaning]
[History]
[Faculties]

 

 

   

System Wardens Pretend to Rule the Times...

Inadequate system wardens see through dark words and cultivate their incredible short-coming as a virtue. For that reason, management innovation is so hard; it has to take place in a prison of the calcified management systems, which needs to be transcended before the point of NO return! Trapped in it these forms that shape the way we think we have to behave and talk, up to the grounding of collective human systems, the financial systems and worse, with suicide terrorism on its various level. So it is hardly surprising that we find it difficult to imagine an alternative set of structures, tools or techniques that might replace what has become such a threat to humanity. As a consequence of the thus mainstream knowledge work, there are more and more deprived, and among the others, more discussions, but no feedback leading to a meaningful play-book, and no set of golden rules for management innovation. However, there are several vital ingredients that always come together when real management innovation happens. These are:

  1. A distinctive and novel point of view about the substantialities that in fact shape the future, beginning with the laws of nature, progressing to those of individual lifefulfillment…

  2. A clearly-articulated problem with the corresponding challenge that needs resolving; today, the inadequate ways of understanding and dealing with human systems, still rooted in Greek philosophy of “free” subjects liking to play with objects, up to men and women, even whole nations and continents, earth itself and nature. An that under the mono-static political curse by which all people are put under the same set of rule…  

  3. A core group of a critical number of real human beings“switched on” to the so far ignored substantiality. They are often tagged as “heretics” and worse, in order to stop them from taking action beyond the organized pre-trans-traps by which transcending solutions can be suppressed like symptoms as preceding the thus embellished trap. But the need for insights into a desirable future remains, with, or without the mainstream opinions, or the spirit of the time, the great procrastinator! However, the thus procrastinated task fulfillment with actions is needed to push the new idea beyond the prevailing forms of organizations despising real people; towards Life-Fulfilling Platforms.

  4. A deep understanding of the traditional orthodoxies that need to be overcome.

Only this way can the pretended rule of the system wardens over time be overcome in order to give the respective substantialities the meaning they deserve to allow lifefulfillment; the basic value without which everything in the end means nothing. When that was discovered in terms of the cause of the plague and its prevention, it took the "Christian" Europe around a hundred year to make it operational! Think of all the millions of lives waste for upholding the then prevailing prejudice about God and humans for the sake of hidden agendas of system wardens of outdated ideologies! And please consider, ingredients are necessary, but not sufficient. There is no substitute for real people switched on to their personally relevant substantiality prepared to fulfil it with their lives; that is, what it is all about! Thus the basics to aim for in a desirable innovating management must be the basics that allow modelling human systems for lifefulfillment.    

 

© Copyright 2008, Dr. Peter Meier, usage other than personal for oneself, requires authorization by the author

Dr. Peter Meier, Zürich, pm@think-systems.ch; ongoing Research&Development since 1979

In depths:

  Appeal - Contents - Introduction - Zeitgeist - Up-to-date (in German)
  Getting Practical with https://options4.think-systems.ch