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First Draft of MIT BOOK Introduction -- Comments Please

  • 1.  First Draft of MIT BOOK Introduction -- Comments Please

    Posted 06-05-2007 20:25

    I have just finished the introduction of my book for MIT press and I am looking for feedback

    your comments on the following would be appreciated:

    http://lissack.com/June4.pdf

     

    The title is "Miracles and Nasty Surprises"

     

    The general idea is along these lines:

     

    There are two very different processes for turning the observation of something new (be it a new idea, a new thing, or a new "connection" amongst ideas or things) into a possibility for action:<u1:p></u1:p>

    Path 1:             Categorize the "new" into a previously recognized definition<u1:p></u1:p>

    Path 2:             Notice what it is about the new that resonates (some underlying pattern, some analogy, some triggered thought)<u1:p></u1:p>

    Path 1 is "ascribed " because the possibilities for action  of the new is labeled or ascribed by virtue of its assigned category.  Path 2 is "emergent" because the possibilities for action emerge as the resonance is explored.<u1:p></u1:p>

    The paths differ:<u1:p></u1:p>

    <u1:p> </u1:p>

    Ascribed

    Emergent

    See Pattern

    Label

    Observe Affordances

    Adjacent Possibles

    Predict

    Explore

    Weak Signals

    Reject as Noise

    Test for Resonance

    Multiple Signals

    Frame/ Bracket

    Dialogue Amongst

    Multiple tasks/roles

    Compartmentalize/deny

    Awareness of active role playing

    Role in a Conversation

    Speak

    Listen

    Tone in Conversation

    State facts

    Ask Questions

    Focus of Efforts

    Efficiency

    Resilience

    Inspiration

    Machine

    Environment

    <u1:p> </u1:p>

    Entrepreneurs are good at the emergent path.  Bureaucrats are good at the ascribed path.  Entrepreneurial success seldom occurs unless one can move the possibilities for action from the emergent path to the ascribed path.  The same is true for financial success.  The linkage between these paths lies in narratives – the stories we tell about our emergent observations.  Managers can attempt  shortcuts to ascription through coercion or insistence on the use of certain labels (categories) but "buy-in" only occurs through narrative. 
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