Back to seeing how stones that you throw in the water today send ripples many miles and years away. Played many times by business executives attending Mr Senge's seminars, the game shows with quite shocking clarity how doing the obvious thing does not produce the obvious result. How crises grow from logical actions of participants. How quickly participants end up blaming each other. It always leaves me wondering whether organizations will ever be able to make their planning worth the time spent on it.
Any organization is as good as individuals that form it.
Well, you may probably have stopped wondering long ago why people are sometimes so uncommitted to their employers. You may as well know the answer through your own experience of being a part of hypocritical organizational culture. I once knew a salesman who was hated probably by everyone in his office for his aggressive, bullyish and heartless attitude to his colleagues, business partners and even clients. Then one day the company sent him and some of his colleagues including me to another city for a one-week training course, away from the office pressures. One of his colleagues even confessed to me how she had been surprised to notice that change.