21-07-2009, 05:30 PM
"Comment and interaction between members" with an expected "rigorous examination" is why I am here.
I don't "have a horse" :ridinghorse:in re: the issue in question, and I haven't been here long enough to know you folks in depth.
In other discussion forums, I've posted guidelines to the identification of misinformation, disinformation and fallacious argument, have objected to it when it masquerades as 'rigorous examination', and have also identified 'agents' at work. [As Yogi Berra once said, 'you can see a lot by just observing'. Time, back-checking, cross-checking, verification and research go a long way too.]
I consider DPF as comprised of a lot of folks more learned than I, with more experience, more knowledge, deeper file drawers and deeper connectedness to others with the same.
My own background includes meeting and symposia management, and I've already noted to Magda that I'd like to have you all over for dinner. A leisurely seven-course meal with aperitif and after-dinner cognac with you guys would be a symposium in itself.]
But since we are flung all over the far edges of the globe, dinner is likely to have to wait, as is a symposium -- unless someone finds funding or the keys to the teleportation machine.
But there are always online meetings or asynchronous discussion boards.
And here we are ..
working with words, links, rhetoric and logic -- and hopefully collegiality, tolerance, shared intent and passion.
The same battles occur on other boards too.
"It's been my experience that groups are more or less dysfunctional depending on the presence or absence of certain preconditions. The work of Dave Snowden and John Kotter supports this. These necessary preconditions for functional groups include:
1. a shared purpose;
2. a shared sense of urgency;
3. the presence among at least some in the group of each of 12 core capacities (I describe these in my book "Finding the Sweet Spot"): excellent instincts, critical thinking, imagination, creativity, attention, communication, demonstration, learning, collaboration and self-management skills, and a strong sense of responsibility and of intention;
4. sufficient information about the subject to have a context for learning and understanding (this is described in James Surowiecki's book "The Wisdom of Crowds"); and
5. a shared passion.
http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2009/07/07.html#a2404
I don't "have a horse" :ridinghorse:in re: the issue in question, and I haven't been here long enough to know you folks in depth.
In other discussion forums, I've posted guidelines to the identification of misinformation, disinformation and fallacious argument, have objected to it when it masquerades as 'rigorous examination', and have also identified 'agents' at work. [As Yogi Berra once said, 'you can see a lot by just observing'. Time, back-checking, cross-checking, verification and research go a long way too.]
I consider DPF as comprised of a lot of folks more learned than I, with more experience, more knowledge, deeper file drawers and deeper connectedness to others with the same.
My own background includes meeting and symposia management, and I've already noted to Magda that I'd like to have you all over for dinner. A leisurely seven-course meal with aperitif and after-dinner cognac with you guys would be a symposium in itself.]
But since we are flung all over the far edges of the globe, dinner is likely to have to wait, as is a symposium -- unless someone finds funding or the keys to the teleportation machine.
But there are always online meetings or asynchronous discussion boards.
And here we are ..
working with words, links, rhetoric and logic -- and hopefully collegiality, tolerance, shared intent and passion.
The same battles occur on other boards too.
"It's been my experience that groups are more or less dysfunctional depending on the presence or absence of certain preconditions. The work of Dave Snowden and John Kotter supports this. These necessary preconditions for functional groups include:
1. a shared purpose;
2. a shared sense of urgency;
3. the presence among at least some in the group of each of 12 core capacities (I describe these in my book "Finding the Sweet Spot"): excellent instincts, critical thinking, imagination, creativity, attention, communication, demonstration, learning, collaboration and self-management skills, and a strong sense of responsibility and of intention;
4. sufficient information about the subject to have a context for learning and understanding (this is described in James Surowiecki's book "The Wisdom of Crowds"); and
5. a shared passion.
http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2009/07/07.html#a2404
"Where is the intersection between the world's deep hunger and your deep gladness?"