Comments on: Work is learning, learning work http://www.jarche.com/2009/05/work-is-learning-learning-work/ Life in Perpetual Beta Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:59:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Harold Jarche » The Learning Age http://www.jarche.com/2009/05/work-is-learning-learning-work/comment-page-1/#comment-187741 Harold Jarche » The Learning Age Thu, 14 May 2009 11:36:49 +0000 http://www.jarche.com/?p=2478#comment-187741 [...] person in an organization can, and should, begin a journey to be active in the Learning [...] [...] person in an organization can, and should, begin a journey to be active in the Learning [...]

]]> By: Harold Jarche http://www.jarche.com/2009/05/work-is-learning-learning-work/comment-page-1/#comment-187667 Harold Jarche Wed, 06 May 2009 11:49:21 +0000 http://www.jarche.com/?p=2478#comment-187667 It's a great poem, Ken :-) It’s a great poem, Ken :-)

]]> By: Ken Allan http://www.jarche.com/2009/05/work-is-learning-learning-work/comment-page-1/#comment-187666 Ken Allan Wed, 06 May 2009 11:05:03 +0000 http://www.jarche.com/?p=2478#comment-187666 What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?
What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?

]]> By: Sreya Dutta http://www.jarche.com/2009/05/work-is-learning-learning-work/comment-page-1/#comment-187652 Sreya Dutta Mon, 04 May 2009 11:19:43 +0000 http://www.jarche.com/?p=2478#comment-187652 Harold, very realistic points made-Networks, life in Beta and Complexity. Networks are always growing and becoming a great medium for knowledge and information transfer. Agreed, life in beta gives you scope to improve continually, but I find taking a risk on life and health to be kind of freaky. Complexity especially does not have a single solution, you need to probe and come up with something more customized to address the issue. Sreya Harold, very realistic points made-Networks, life in Beta and Complexity.
Networks are always growing and becoming a great medium for knowledge and information transfer.
Agreed, life in beta gives you scope to improve continually, but I find taking a risk on life and health to be kind of freaky.
Complexity especially does not have a single solution, you need to probe and come up with something more customized to address the issue.

Sreya

]]> By: Harold Jarche http://www.jarche.com/2009/05/work-is-learning-learning-work/comment-page-1/#comment-187650 Harold Jarche Sun, 03 May 2009 22:54:50 +0000 http://www.jarche.com/?p=2478#comment-187650 Thanks for the comment, Milan. I think we're actually living life in Beta in every aspect of life. We just accept, or don't understand, the inherent levels of risk. Beta health care: e.g. super bugs created from overuse of (beta) antibiotics Beta pharmaceuticals - e.g. Vioxx allowed on market when still in Beta Beta motor vehicles - check all the recalls here: http://www.consumeraffairs.com/recalls/arecalls_auto.htm Aircraft: Eurocopter crashes at sea with engine failure; national safety systems not up to international standards, etc. I contend that accepting that we are in Beta helps us to stay vigilant and look for ways of improving our systems and organisations, instead of assuming that everything is working just fine. An attitude of life in Beta for companies may get them to stop denying or covering up their errors. An open method of accident investigation has made the airline industry safer than our health care systems (see "The Human Factor", by Kim Vicente). Thanks for the comment, Milan. I think we’re actually living life in Beta in every aspect of life. We just accept, or don’t understand, the inherent levels of risk.

Beta health care: e.g. super bugs created from overuse of (beta) antibiotics

Beta pharmaceuticals – e.g. Vioxx allowed on market when still in Beta

Beta motor vehicles – check all the recalls here: http://www.consumeraffairs.com/recalls/arecalls_auto.htm

Aircraft: Eurocopter crashes at sea with engine failure; national safety systems not up to international standards, etc.

I contend that accepting that we are in Beta helps us to stay vigilant and look for ways of improving our systems and organisations, instead of assuming that everything is working just fine. An attitude of life in Beta for companies may get them to stop denying or covering up their errors. An open method of accident investigation has made the airline industry safer than our health care systems (see “The Human Factor”, by Kim Vicente).

]]> By: Milan Davidovic http://www.jarche.com/2009/05/work-is-learning-learning-work/comment-page-1/#comment-187592 Milan Davidovic Fri, 01 May 2009 15:18:56 +0000 http://www.jarche.com/?p=2478#comment-187592 re: Life in Beta -- how do we feel about being hooked up to a "beta" infusion pump. Or taking "beta" pharmaceuticals? Or driving along a highway in a "beta" motor vehicle? Or flying 35,000 above the earth in a 'beta" aircraft? Or am I looking at this the wrong way? re: Life in Beta — how do we feel about being hooked up to a “beta” infusion pump. Or taking “beta” pharmaceuticals? Or driving along a highway in a “beta” motor vehicle? Or flying 35,000 above the earth in a ‘beta” aircraft?

Or am I looking at this the wrong way?

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