Saturday, July 11, 2020

I Once Heard



That a camel, is a horse designed by a committee. 

One summer, I took a simple sounding class "small group communications theory."  The first thing we learned, is that true consensus, where everyone agrees either exists on the first call, or it is a myth.  Even if everyone seems to be in agreement, some of them are compromising to agree and that is not true consensus. There is a difference between agreeing to a common set of ideas or principles and being in consensus. One of the keys is to focus on what people agree on, and promote compromise to common ground on the rest.  

With the camel, there are obvious compromises, but overall it works, it does well for what it is intended to do.  


13 comments:

  1. Anonymous7/11/2020

    Then there are goals to be achieved, and people will want to achieve them in different ways.

    I wonder if a two humped camel was designed by a committee with input from the Board of Directors?

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    1. Everyday is hump day for some

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  3. The committee improved on the design when they came up with the two-humped camel -- built-in saddle. I hate committees, maybe because the ones I was involved in were simply ego opportunities.

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    1. Someday, when I am done with work related committees, I will be able to say what I really think.

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  4. Now if we could just get that to work at the government level.

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    1. I have been on a few government committees over the years, I remember the first one . . . Scream

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  5. I guess the committee was drunk while designing platypussies.

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  6. We regularly play Jaipur; camels are an integral part of the game. Camels !

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