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My initial response is yes I agree
I will spend some time mulling

Regards  Denis Cowan

On Sat, 4 Jun 1994 G.Southon@unsw.edu.au wrote:

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> >Dale  As an organizational consulnt, this is the closest phrase I can
> >find to
> >describe myself,  I find this article very relevant.  Most of my clients
> >wish me to help them recapture that sense of certainty they used to
> >have.  My reality is that we would all be better off if we adddressed the
> >issue of "living with insecurity".
>
> I agree that people need to be able to manage insecurity and uncertainty.
> But we do need certain tools and a framework to do that. I think three
> important factors are a sense of identity, a sense of history, and the
> knowledge of what is stable as well as what is not changing. Most people
> talking about change seem to ignore these factors. Most seem to assume that
> change is inevitable, anything new is good, and the only problem is
> presented by those that resist change. Few look closely at how we have got
> to where we are, or what the evidence is that we are actually going to
> benefit from the change. The enthusiastic endorsment based on a few cases
> is enough to evidence to justify everyone leaping out into the uknown.They
> expect people to jump when they are, "figuratively wallowing around in a
> bog of uncertainty with no basis for a foothold".
>
> It seems to me that people are so desperate for any sort of certainty that
> they are willing to grab hold of any packaged "answer" be it MBO, MBWO,
> TQM, CQI, BPR, visions, corporate plans or a host of other things. While
> most of these do have value, many people have little basis to assess them,
> or adapt them effectively to their own situations. This explains why they
> are so often unsuccessful.
>
> We need to look more closely where we have been, what we should be taking
> with us, and try to be discriminating about where we might be going.
>
> Gray Southon
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