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Not every idea threatens change to the status quo, but those that do are met with a fairly predictable response: attention, which can diverge into derision or fascination; resistance; and sometimes, acceptance. I just finished reading a book that’s bound to trigger all three, with plenty of fireworks along the way.
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Frederic Laloux’s Reinventing Organizations (Nelson Parker, 2014) has the attention-grabbing subtitle, “A guide to creating organizations inspired by the next stage of human consciousness.” Luckily for me, by the time I paid sufficient attention to that, I’d already been hooked by the book’s premise. Otherwise, I’d probably have veered off along the derision path and missed the “exhilarating and deeply hopeful” reaction the book has inspired during its few months of existence.
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Bought it, read it (Kindle edition)
No news, good news? No: no news, good old caryatids, instead. Matthew Barsalou (QDD Oct. 14, 2014) in his article "Science should discover Deming" well depicted the present obsession with measurements and measurement widgets instead of reasoning, and also the following Michael Rapaport's article on ISO 26262 points the finger this way (not only in the picture). Though innovation is the word of the day, true innovation is a very risky affair indeed, we see it every day: Man's preference for long established procedures, or status quo, must not be an excuse anymore for no change, no improvement, or for too slow changes or improvements, as we see them happen instead in hugely funded projects. "We don't need another hero", we've enough of them: just let's read their stories once again.
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