Will Enterprise 2.0 Drive Management Innovation ?

Thanks for the insightful reflections! It reminds me of an article I read recently referenced in this blogpost: http://ackoffcenter.blogs.com/ackoff_center_weblog/2003/08/interview_with_.html

And thank you for the compliment (I’m going to assume that ‘insightful reflections” is complimentary).

Any time anything I write can even get close to being considered in the same general vicinity as Russell Ackoff’s thinking is a (very) good day for me ! he is truly one of the masters of systems thinking theory and practice.

Jon:

Thoughtful as usual. I wonder if I fully agree with your statement that Management 2.0 won’t erase Management 1.0. As someone with a foot deeply set in both at the moment, I see a tension that is beyond potential stasis. Management 2.0 needs to win, but it will be influenced by the battle so as to morph into some hybrid perhaps. That may be little different than what you say.

The tipping point comes with crises. What crises push forward Management 2.0 I wonder? Love to hear your blog thoughts on crisis and Management 2.0. Do we revert? Hmmm.

Regardless, I find your blog indispensible for my own sense-making about 2.0 phenomena.

Ryan Lanham

Jon,

My comments were indeed a compliment to the valuable insights you are willing to share with us (people in large corporations). I often find jewels in your blogposts which I would like to quote in my weblog on our company’s intranet. How could I get copyright permission from you?

sTsao …

You are welcome to use anything I write that you wish to use … hereby, blanket permission.

Actually, Ryan, I think I am with you on the tipping point .. but I can’t / don’t want to overlook the power of 20 – 40 years of indoctrination for hundreds of thousands of managers. It takes courage to think differently, and a lot of sustained and focused energy to make real changes in tenaciously-held mental models