Management Fads (Habits vs. knowledge) LO9421

jack hirschfeld (jack@his.com)
Sat, 24 Aug 1996 12:20:10 -0400

Replying to LO9400 --

[from Jeff Brooks]
>I'm not sure I agree with your assessment. You seem to be talking about two
>different things: habits and knowledge. Consciously making and breaking
>habits are both difficult and time consuming. Gaining and forgetting
>"knowledge" are relatively simple and take relatively little time.

Not long ago I attended a session with Peter Senge where he expressed the
view that *unlearning* the "intuitive" ideas about balance, angular
momentum and system dynamics which we learn when we learn how to walk is
the hard part of learning how to ride a bicycle.

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