widespread failures . .

Question to Dee Hock. . . I don't see any widespread institutional failure. Command-and-control organizations

seem as firmly in control as ever. Am I missing something? His answer, "No. When we talk about "failure", we

don't only mean failure in the sense of collapse, such as the Soviet Union or corporate bankruptcy. That kind

of failure usually makes the headlines. Rather, we are just as concerned about failure in its more common and

pernicious form--institutions increasingly unable to achieve the purpose for which they are created, yet

continuing to expand as they devour our resources, demean the human spirit and destroy the environment.

The symptoms of institutional failure are all around us: schools that can't teach, corporations that can't

cooperate or compete--only consolidate, unhealthy health-care systems, communities in which people can't

communicate, welfare systems in which few fare well, judicial systems without justice, governance that can't

govern, and economies that can't economize."

 

see my blog archive-October for info about Dee Hock