Organising the
field of consultancy using logic
The logic of Feeling in Organizations, discipline, and communication requires
elaboration into practice. I describe the translation into my vision in the
field of consulting on the basis of the pillars, or themes, of this logic:
For each theme, I arrive at an arrangement of the visions and models of other
researchers/consultants.
The logic of Feeling in Organizations serves as a steppingstone and as a tool
for determining my viewpoint.
Worldviews and
system thinking
A living system wants to develop itself, but every system also has a limit to
its capacity for steering.
Social constructivism
does not indicate how the limits of the logic are defined. According to social
constructivism, our images of reality arise without an order preceding humankind
which can be normative. There is no criterion outside of the content to
determine what is true, what has quality. In my view, it shows boundless
arrogance to maintain that there is no reality outside of the subject. I share
the view that observation is never value-free, but given the restrictions on the
human capacity for thought, this fits in well with system thinking. No single
system can know its own boundaries, except via a higher, external system.
Thus, it is evident that humanity is part of a greater whole which we cannot
conceive of. Why would that system not have an influence?
DAVID BOHM calls this larger system the generative order, where everything is
"enfolded" in everything. The generative (implicit) order is continuously
unfolding itself into what we experience as the visible world (the explicit
order). People take part in this unfolding. This philosophy links up with a lot
of Eastern philosophy, where the immeasurable is regarded as the primary
reality: the entire structure and order of forms that present themselves to
observation and reason is a kind of veil, which covers the true reality and
about which nothing can be said or thought, but which is manifest in feeling.
Postmodernism
leaves no room for spirituality. After all, the recognition of external
inspiration would let a universal truth sneak back in. RORTY says: "Radicals
want sublimity, but liberals want beauty". Irony is central to prevent someone
or something from being proven right. FRISSEN explains this as follows: politics
and government no longer can or want to tell the great stories of the good or
the just in the postmodern information society. The main problem that I have
with this is that he is using the unintended consequence of modernism as an
argument, but does not address the unintended consequences of postmodernism.
Thus, he does not meet the quality requirement that the limits of a conception
be shown. I see as the unintended consequences of postmodernism: disorientation
and depression. To me, this comes across as: life has no meaning, so we might as
well make something nice of it for ourselves. I myself choose sublimity, with
beauty playing an important role.
Development
of views on reality, knowledge and science in the over time.
Over the course of centuries, a shift occurred in philosophy from everything is
uncertain (that is why we need myths and stories (premodernism)) to everything
is certain, because it is recorded in natural laws (modernism), to everything is
uncertain because reality is only in people's heads (postmodernism, social
constructivism).
In modernism, there are people who are right. In post modernism, nobody is
right. I argue for reflexivism: from the multiplicity of viewpoints there
are certainties in the natural system and uncertainties in the social system.
The integration/harmonisation of these is carried out in reflection, in
communication. In the question of whether someone is right, the first question
is not if they are right, according to WIERDSMA (2001), but right for what, in
what system. In the natural system, action is in fact predictable, in the social
system it is not. Thus, there is a risk involved in the application of logic
from one system to the other.
You
must specify the system for which something applies.
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