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less detailed planning or putting fake subjects on an agenda to surprise everyone with
extra reflection time. Moreover, from some of the involved I learned that their participation
in the project had changed the way they thought about their work and the way
they organized meetings in their department in a different way. And as far as everyone
is concerned discussions about dissent will be held every half year. Just to explore what
it is to deal with dissent.
There will be no final solutions of this project. I think the project is its own result as far
as we keep on trying to understand what we are doing.
6.7 Reflections in hindsight
The narrative is about potential company blindness, about power, about involvement
of members of staff in developing policy, against the background of derailments within
organizations. It suffers a bit from a discord between dissent as a way of changing
hierarchical relations, to prevent company blindness and to preserve the organization.
The narrative, analysis and reflection in this chapter have developed into a rather
explorative effort with regard to the subject of dissent. With regard to content there is
a direct link with the chapter before, coming from the consideration to introduce a
corporate jester. However, in due course of what happens a discussion about stimulating
dissent leads to some ideas about interrupting to what we are doing. To organize
some sort of reflexivity within the UAS.
From a complex responsive process-perspective reflections on uncertainty and time
are introduced, as a way of trying to understand what happens. That there are no
measurable results is not problematic reflecting from this perspective, although
present-day policy requires proportional measurable results of investments. However,
results are not excluded. One never can know what some small alternations in local
interactions may have population wide.
The exploration of time in emphasizing that human life is living in the present out of
which the past and present are socially constructed, deepens the notion of self-organization.
The exploration of time related to the discussions about dissent exemplifies
how whatever we do - including to do something as planning or preparing – is done in
a continuous process in which everyone participates but which no one controls.
However, also without controlling something comes out of it, maybe something even
better. But who will be the judge of that? Basically for me it strengthens a belief in less
planning from above or from the top, and more being involved in the conversational
micro-politics of the UAS. If I reflect upon my wiki-project, as elaborated upon from
the perspective of wisdom of the crowds (chapter 3) I would say that wisdom exists in
what you are doing. Wisdom is not something to organize as if people can be seduced
to give their wisdom away, or as if wisdom can be extracted from people, next be
added and then prescribed as the solution of someone’s problems. I have learned that
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