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Created: September 22, 2003
Latest Update: September 22, 2003
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Commentary on Dialogic AnswerabilitySite Copyright: Jeanne Curran and Susan R. Takata and Individual Authors, September 2003.
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These comments are in response to Dialogic Answerability in the Hierarachical Institutuion.On Thursday, September 18, 2003, Quan Banks, CSUDH, wrote:
Dialogic answerability would seem like the right and moral way to have governance, but without monologic non-answerability, things would never get done.A typical response, Quan to democracy and Democrats. jeanne
everyone would essentially be of the same rank and have the same amount of authority. in utopia that would be fine, but in the real world our communities and society would rip apart as everyone went on to do their own things and stopped the interdependence upon one another.
Quan, this is a complex argument that I can't answer briefly. But let me suggest that you look at Gordon Fellman's work, in which he illustrates the misconceptions of our competitiveness and the failure to understand the power of mutuality. Increasingly, corporations are recognizing the need for cooperative rather than competitive work. That includes the Harvard Business School. jeanne