Citizens Not Subjects. SOCRATIC MANAGEMENT, LEARNING BY REMEMBERING
Pythagoras. "You will study music and geometry". First Dealer. "A charming recipe! The way to be wise: learn the guitar".
In Between Days, The Cure Live At Roskilde 2012
https://longhairedmusings.wordpress.com/2012/07/06/socratic-management-learning-by-remembering/
July 6, 2012
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In the 1990ś Sir John Harvey Jones ( The retired Chairman of I C I the Chemical Giant) presented a wonderful television series called Trouble Shooter, I still have the book. I watched it eagerly as a young man and remember marveling at the informal yet spellbinding wisdom that Sir John radiated in his trademark managing by walking around.
fast forward to today and a blog I did last week about Lucian and his Auction of philosophers in the slave market in Samos and the Pythagorean pitch of what his philosophy offered.” I will not teach you I will remind you.´
Then we have Socrates and his philosophy and inquiry into the citizens of Athens's daily perceptions of reality, and government by walking around and remembering by the Famous Socratic method.
The Socratic school of management is born note bene.
My vote for the Socratic manager of the 21st century is Ricardo Semler(1). the CEO and majority owner of Semco SA, a Brazilian company best known for its radical form of industrial democracy and corporate re-engineering
Another sensai in the remembering of what we come to know again is Paulo Friere(2) who was also Brazilian.
remember Freire’s strong aversion to the teacher-student dichotomy.
No Tyrants they.
Another minstrel and poet for the muse of the new Socratic school of Management is Robert Smith, Frontman of The Cure. I was invited to their Show headlining Roskilde last night by Roger O’donnel their Keyboard player a friend of mine, Roger reminds me of Timotheus,(3) Harmonides teacher. He counsels his pupils not to seek the wisdom of crowds as a crutch for their self-esteem, but better, to be admired by one’s peers, and secure in the motivations of their true self.
I do hope the reference is not construed as ´Jumpin on someone else’s train ´
Moving swiftly on to the point about our Poet Marsyas(4) and his Guitar, not Flute
Emblazoned on Robers Schekter Guitar.
“CITIZENS NOT SUBJECTS:”
Pythagoras. You will study music and geometry.
First Dealer. A charming recipe! The way to be wise: learn the guitar.
And a final Word From Max Ehrman who Desiderata(4) sent me in search of a cure for my own amnesia.
“Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant, they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.”
In isolated elites remote politicians and financiers in far-off lands, what can they ever hope to be reminded of? Let’s remember not to forget our own worth.
(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_Semler
(2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo_Freire
(3)http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/luc/wl2/wl208.htm
(4) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsyas
(5) http://www.businessballs.com/desideratapoem.htm
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