[From Bob Clark (930618.1115 am EDT)]
Those of you "Netters" who, like Dag, are interested in working with
organizations (such as businesses, governments, schools) may find the
following book interesting:
REINVENTING GOVERNMENT
How the Entrepreneurial Spirit is Transforming the Public Sector from
Schoolhouse to Statehouse, City Hall to the Pentagon
David Osborne, and Ted Gaebler
Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, MA
This book offers some rather unusual ways of viewing Social Control
Systems. Without using formal "levels of control," it suggests the
importance of including and organizing a larger range of individual
abilities and initiatives than the usual, strictly limited,
authoritarian structure.
I am finding it not only interesting from a theoretical standpoint,
but also because it offers some "every day language and concepts"
that can help me in my attempts to improve the operations of the
Forest Park Government.
I strongly recommend your looking it over.
Regards, Bob Clark