cqen.list Weekly Digest Subject: RE: A general theory of Social-biology Subject: Closing of the TQM BBS Subject: TQM in the public sector (fwd) ---------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 24 Apr 96 14:43:21 UT From: "Peter Pflaum" Subject: RE: A general theory of Social-biology SYNERGY-NET on http://metro.turnpike.net/~pflaump RE: A general theory of Social-biology: Synergy of fission- fusion; The Internet is the newest and most open synergy system; a new cultural life form in the evolution of the species. The Internet works because of cooperation by thousands of developers and users exchanging information. It is also a battle for territory among tribes ( Microsoft and Netscape, the telephone companies, cable, computer companies ). This creative tension is driving and pulling the culture into a new round of cultural evolution. There will be more losers than winners - (losers are the middle people with territorial dependencies that can be replaced; local banks, insurance, travel agencies, school information services, specialty shops: winners are the global enterprises that can bypass the middle-people in the distribution process ) that's the way it works. Social-biological science is the foundation for business, economics, political science, management, education, psychology, sociology and anthropology; the understanding of ourselves and others. Mostly social science has become descriptive without a solid base but comprising thousands of "theories" or fads. The movement of the planets is not a "theory" or is evolution a theory but an observation. The underlining reasons, causes, "the why" is theory, for better or worse, based on these observations. The shortest and clearest theory, that covers the most observations, has clear advantages to our understanding ( knowledge = ( observations, information ) + understanding the connections and making a mental map of the territory. ). The theory of creative tension works across all social and behavioral sciences, from monkeys to congresspersons ( but I repeat myself) . Observations: People walk upright - have manual skill and pre-mature births: ( babies learn more out-side than they would inside but need a long-term support system. They are pre-mature because of their head size, with a big brain and the structure of hips and birth channel. ) People live in clans but mate across grouping: ( creating in- laws, complex alliances, and genetic enrichment ) They are sexual active, the size of males is close to females. Families values are the foundation of society. ( Self-discipline, compassion ( empathy ), responsibility, friendship, work, courage, perseverance, honesty, loyalty, faith according to Bill Bennett ) we are also tricky, devious, and too clever for our own good. People have abstract language and signs which to talk to each others and strangers. ( If you listen you may learn something new ) The groups with the best information, maps, the best toys ( technologies ) and the social organization to connect knowledge and doing: win. Winning people and groups cooperate, building solidarity through ritual, games and traditions, discuss relationships and new ideas within their groups; identify themselves, their status and their group with signs, ornaments and dress, (uniforms) trade and exchange information with others and compete for resources within the rules. They learn to live in a complex of ambiguous relationships and information involving fission and fusion. (Examples: Mankarenko's " The Road to Life " and the Busmen !Kung tribe, The God's must be crazy ?, Motorola and Global Village Schools ) The theory: Fission-Fusion; internal cooperation,(TQM) external competition, (Just like Japan Inc. ) creates the push-pull for continuous improvements (Deming). Effective organization ( business, schools, governments ) are built on this tension ( The federalist papers ) between solidarity inside, with the freedom to change; and competition with "them" on the outside with the rules. (Nixon failed on the last point) A delicate balance that takes judgment and experience. Winning ( the bottom line) is clearly not the "only" criteria but growth and development, learning organizations do better in the long run. SYNERGY of the upper Paleolithic and Neolithic modern humans and the sudden "conquest" of nature by our species is explained by the connection of "thinking and doing", social and physical technologies that are learned, improved and exchanged. The appearance of groups that were "superior" as thinkers and doers replaced those that were stuck in their ecological and cultural rut. This is true from Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon to Honda and GM. The difference in human types must have been biological, involving breading, communications, and social-technical organization that kept traditions and ritual but encouraged innovation. The cross breading and intertribal relationship are the engine of change. Interbred populations and corporations decay and die off. The Internet is the newest and most open synergy system; a new life form. Reading: "The Human Revolution: Behavioral and Biological Perspectives on the Origin of Modern Humans " P. A. Mellars and C.B. Stinger, Princeton University Press Dibble H. in above FUSION: association, coming together colleagueship, co-ownership, copartnership, partnership, PARTICIPATION nationalization, internationalization, JOINT POSSESSION pooling, pool, kitty membership, affiliation, INCLUSION connection, hookup, tie-in, tie-up, RELATION consociation, ecosystem combination, consolidation, centralization, UNION integration, solidarity, WHOLE unification, UNITY amalgamation, fusion, merger voluntary association, coalition, cohabitation, alliance, league, federation, confederation, confederacy, umbrella organization axis, united front, common front, popular front, POLITICAL PARTY an association, commune, congregation, fellowship, college, club, sodality, fraternity, sorority, COMMUNITY set, clique, coterie, cell, PARTY workers' association, trade union, chapel business association, company, joint-stock company, syndicate, combine, consortium, trust, cartel, ring, CORPORATION housing association, economic community, cooperative, workers' cooperative, commune, COMMUNITY FISSION: separation, disjoining, severance, parting uncoupling, divorcement, breaking up, splitting up, DIVORCE untying, undoing, unfastening, unzipping, unlacing, unbuttoning, unthreading, unravelling, laddering loosening, loosing, freeing, LIBERATION setting apart, discrimination, segregation, ghettoization, apartheid, SECLUSION exception, exemption, EXCLUSION boycott, AVOIDANCE expulsion, EJECTION picking out, selection, CHOICE putting aside, setting aside, keeping aside, STORAGE conservation, PRESERVATION taking away, SUBTRACTION abstraction, deprivation, expropriation, TAKING detaching, detachment, withdrawal, removal, transfer, DISPLACEMENT, TRANSFERENCE denudation, stripping, peeling, plucking, fleecing, clipping, shearing, UNCOVERING disjointing, dislocation, luxation scattering, dispersal, DISPERSION dissolution, resolution, disintegration, DECOMPOSITION dissection, analysis, breakdown disruption, shattering, fragmentation, DESTRUCTION splitting, fission, nuclear fission, NUCLEONICS breaking, cracking, rupture, fracture, BRITTLENESS dividing line, caesura wall, fence, palisade, hedge, ha-ha, PARTITION curtain, SCREEN boundary, LIMIT SYNERGY-NET on http://emporium.turnpike.net/~pflaump ** Peter E. Pflaum Ph.D. , Headmaster GLOBAL_VILLAGE_SCHOOLHOUSE 225 Robinson Road, New Smyrna Beach, FL 32169-2176 (904) 428-9609 pflaump@sprynet.com ***************************************************************** ---------------------------------------- From: Tom.Glenn@tqm.permanet.org (Tom Glenn) Date: 27 Apr 96 21:17:00 -0500 Subject: Closing of the TQM BBS I will be closing down the TQM BBS sometime between now and the beginning of the summer. I'm hoping to find someone who will take it over and continue to provide the service which so many have found valuable. If you're interested, please let me know. I can be reached via Internet at tom.glenn@tqm.permanet.org. Or by any of the addresses listed below. My reasons for closing the board are several. My writing has now become a full-time-plus effort. Copyright difficulties with respect to files posted on the board have come up and taken up time. Finally, I am somewhat disillusioned with the quality movement--too often aimed at earning money, too infrequently aimed at changing things for the better. I'm hoping to find someone who will offer a TQM BBS as a free service, a public service venture. I continue to believe that the service is useful, but I can no longer run it. ==================================== Tom Glenn, DPA SysOp, The TQM BBS 301-585-1164 Internet: tom.glenn@tqm.permanet.org tom.glenn@den.permanet.org Fax, voice: 301-565-8882 100 Hodges Lane Takoma Park, Maryland 20912 ==================================== -- |PerMaNet : Tom Glenn 11:202/299 |Internet : Tom.Glenn@tqm.permanet.org | | Standard disclaimer: The views of this user are strictly his own. ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1996 11:30:12 -0400 From: dlk@deming.ces.clemson.edu (List Moderator Account) (by way of "D. L. Kimbler" ) Subject: TQM in the public sector (fwd) Message below was posted on den.list and forwarded here by Jim Clauson, den.list moderator. > Forwarded message: > From den.list-request@deming.ces.clemson.edu Sat Apr 27 14:40:40 1996 > X-Envelope-From: nobody@deming.ces.clemson.edu Sat Apr 27 14:40:34 1996 > Date: Sat, 27 Apr 96 14:40:32 EDT > Message-Id: <9604271840.AA04146@deming.eng.clemson.edu.eng> > From: ayandow@moose.uvm.edu > To: den.list@deming.ces.clemson.edu > Subject: TQM in the public sector > > I am interested in applying the principals of TQM to a Head > Start program that we are currently reviewing. I am > interested in any examples of TQM being used in a Head Start > program, another education program or a community action > program. > > Message posting through the Clemson CQI Web Server. > > > > -- -- Del Kimbler, List Maintainter and Moderator Dept of Industrial Engineering, Clemson University kimbler@ces.clemson.edu ---------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- End of Digest Provided by Department of Industrial Engineering, Clemson University Comments to list@eng.clemson.edu