Stage-5: Facing Hard Reality
Information & Knowledge
The basis of the Stage-5 cultural shift to thepress for facts to aid their realization, while facts absolutely depend on goals for meaning.
is simple:The needed
Information is used in organizations long before this, but it would be odd to describe it as a learning tool or way to enhance commitment. Instead, information…
As pressure for achievement grows and risks increase, ignorance, imprecision and uncertainty become less and less acceptable. Reducing uncertainty by being objective appeals to many modern managers, but that does not clarify what is entailed in explicitly valuing information and knowledge.
Hard data often surprises people. However print-outs, networking and computers are worth little if users lack the necessary motivations and values.
Empiricist Values & Principles
In handling the situation:
In handling the group:
In handling yourself:
As should be expected, there is an ever-present natural degeneration of , whose positive value is that it helps fuel determination to make a further transition: to the .
- But first consider issues in the installation of empiricist values.
Originally posted: 17-Jun-2011