I guess part of my problem is the assumption that all people who are
getting a "Management Education" are doing so to become "Leaders,
Managers" or what have you in organizations. There is a myriad of
reasons why students attend any management education program. Learing
does not always imply skill application.
However, I am with you that it is beeter to work on skills in a
classroom then on employees backs.
"We do not see the world as it is, We see the world as we are" -Talmud
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>From: Jack Ring[SMTP:
jring@AMUG.ORG]
>Sent: Saturday, February 15, 1997 12:30 PM
>To:
MG-ED-DV@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
>Subject: Re: 14 Feb 1997, Communication Styles
>
>Miles,
>Please accept my context. I was participating in a discussion on
>Management Education. Accordingly although there is a place for
>"taciturns" in this world (maybe that is why academia was invented),
>employees are poorly served by a taciturn manager.
>
>A major role of a manager is to be a role model for the learning process.
>If open dialog is to be the modus operandi of the learning organization,
>then participative communication is a key skill and there is no place for a
>taciturn.
>
>Better they learn how communicate and dialog in management school than on
>the backs of employees.
>
>OBTW, it may be well to recall the old proverb that goes something like: I
>HEAR and I am aware, I SEE and I understand, I DO and I remember.
>
>On Fri, 14 Feb 1997 09:52:59, "Davis, Miles" wrote:
>>Subject: Re: Communication Styles.
>>
>>I am really having a problem with this one and only one way line of
>>reasoning.
>>Your underlying premsie seems to be that one can not learn in a didactic
>>mode. And that learning only takes place in the presence of overt
>>communication.
>>
>>The view point is problematic from several perspectics, but first we
>>need to look at what we are calling "learning." How does that differ
>>from knowledge and information?
>>
>>And some people actually are taciturn individuals. What they aspire for
>>out of management education may not be to serve as a functionary in the
>>"real world" of business.
>>>
>
>and, regarding your next note in the Topic:
>>I'm with you George.
>we can't be very far apart in our views because I am with George, as well.
>
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