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21, 2001 |
Keeping
You Up-to-Date With Values R&D and
Events! |
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Field Maps - A new way to explore values |
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"Although we know a great deal
about the way fields affect the world
as we perceive it, the truth is no one
really knows what a field is. The
closest we ca come to describing what
they are is to say that they are
spatial structures in the fabric of
space itself." (Talbot cited
Wheatley 1994, p. 46)
The R&D Division of the Minessence
Group has developed an Energy Field Map
as a new way to explore a person,
organisation or culture's values. To
provide a context to the development of
this Map a few relevant notes &
quotes are listed below...
Newton’s world of cause and effect
required great effort (described in the
language of forces) to make things
happen. However, since the emergence of
the quantum world-view, we instead see
that it is possible to make things
happen through manipulating non-material
structures, i.e. fields - the basic
fabric of the universe.
One way of describing how fields work is
to consider fish in an ocean. As the
water moves in synchronism with the
swell, the fish all appear to move
together from side to side or up and
down as though connected by some
invisible connector Of course, in this
case, we know that it is the water of
the ocean. Fields in space behave the
same way. We cannot see them and they
(unlike the water of the ocean) have no
material substance, however, they link
all material objects in space.
"Physical reality is not only
material. Fields are considered real,
but they are not material"
(Wheatley 1994 p. 40).
In 'field language', the laws of motion
are rules for flows in the 'cosmic
ocean'. Field-based rules for
transformation tell us what reactions
occur among the components in the cosmic
ocean and the convergence of fields
brings energy into form.
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The Newtonian Science Organisation
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The Quantum Science Organisation
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"An organisation is a
collection of choices looking for
problems; issues and feelings
looking for decision situations in
which they might be aired;
solutions looking for issues to
which there might be an answer;
and decision makers looking for
work" (Cohen, March &
Olsen cited Wheatley 1994, p. 54)
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Organisational order is generated
through fields. These fields are
conceptual controls – it is the
ideas of a business that are
controlling, not some manager with
authority One of the most powerful
fields is the shared meaning
or the unconscious common
ground within an
organisation.
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"In the field view of
organizations, clarity about values or
vision is important, but it’s only
half the task. Creating the field
through the dissemination of those ideas
is essential. The field must reach all
corners of the organisation, involve
everyone, and be available
everywhere...we need to imagine
ourselves as broadcasters, tall radio
beacons of information, pulsating out
messages everywhere...we must fill all
the spaces with the messages we care
about. If we do that, fields develop –
and with them, their wondrous capacity
to bring energy into form. (Wheatley
1994, pp. 55-56)
References
Wheatley, M 1994, Leadership and the
New Science: Learning about organization
from an orderly universe,
Berrett-Koehler, San Francisco.
Tosey, P. & Smith, P. 1999, ‘Assessing
the learning organization: part 2 –
exploring practical assessment processes’,
The Learning Organization: An
International Journal, Vol 6, No 3,
pp.107-115
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| An
Energy Field View of the Australian
Workforce |
To
give you a feel for Energy Field Maps,
we have produced two for you to look at.
The FIRST
was constructed from our first (1988)
values survey of the Australian
workforce. The SECOND
is from last year's (2000) survey.
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