Kicking Command and Control Blog January Archive blog.topic  

The term Human Learning Systems covers every kind of Learning Organisation from small teams to whole societies, taking businesses, political parties, social movements, public services, governments, along the way.

Although many people have made and are making important contributions to our understanding of Human Learning Systems, two names stand out: Chris Argyris and Donald Shon (or Shön). In this brief introduction it is possible merely to sketch the broad outlines of why their work is so important to the task of kicking command and control leadership.

Read more: Command and Control Thinking vs Learning Systems [click]

A Spanish Grandee said 400 years ago, that wars are won by the side that has “the last escudo”.

If our societies are to Kick Command and Control we will need billions of escudos, and dollars, euros, pounds, roubles, pesos, rupees and reals.

Bill Gates' parents gave $400 Million to Cambridge University to endow the Gates leadership programme, for example. The Gates' gift is just a tiny fraction of the money available to force-feed Command and Control KoolAid to future generations and reinforce its lobotomising effects on their elders.

Read more: WE ARE GOING TO NEED THAT LAST ESCUDO [click]