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Seeing Systems, 2nd Edition
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Seeing Systems, 2nd Edition

by Barry Oshry
August 2007
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
272 pages
5h 16m
English
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Content preview from Seeing Systems, 2nd Edition

Scene 1 When We Don’t See the Big Picture

1 Pinball

Sometimes life in the organization feels like a game of pinball, and we’re the little metal ball. We start each day launched into a mysterious world of bumpers lights bells and whistles. Lights flash on and off. Buzzers sound. Gates open and close, sometimes propelling us at high speed to some other center of the action, and sometimes letting us drop quietly into a hole.

All of this is a mystery to us. Is this just a set of random events? Or is there some grand scheme known to others, but not to us? One day we hit a bumper. Lights flash. Bells ring. Big numbers go up on the scoreboard. The next day we keep an eye out for that bumper. We hit it. Nothing. A dull thud. ...

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ISBN: 9781576755358