[Xmca-l] Re: Crises and stages/ages

[Andy Blunden]

I have many times experienced a fellow worker with no special talent, 
once elected as a shop steward, in a short space of time, become a 
competent leader. Equally, I have seen many newly appointed managers 
make exceptions to Peter's Principle and suddenly respond to the new way 
they are treated by their once-fellow workers, and take on a 
professional leadership role.
Often, the reverse happens, but we all see these as some kind of failure 
of development, a mismatch.
I don't see the problem, Huw. :)

Andy
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*Andy Blunden*
http://home.pacific.net.au/~andy/


Huw Lloyd wrote:
> Sure, but those transitions, in themselves, do not necessarily implicate a
> change in the structuring of consciousness, cognition or manner of
> activity.  That's particularly so of changes in the roles and
> responsibilities of adults.  Once one is sufficiently adapted to one's
> environment, it takes deliberate intention to change one's mode of
> conduct.  Hence Simon's referencing the capacity for adaptation.
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> Huw
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> On 20 March 2015 at 12:22, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> wrote:
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>> Sticking to child development for the moment .... a child is born
>> physically, biologically, emotionally, psychologically, intellectually and
>> socially dependent on their family (or whomever).
>> In something like 90% of cases, by the time they're in their 20s, they are
>> working, voting, householders in their own right. No matter how many people
>> never get a job, raise a family or learn to tell the difference between  a
>> used car salesman and a statesman, this process is normal, the passage
>> through a series of culturally defined social positions in which the given
>> individual more or less adequately fulfils the social expectations.
>>
>> Andy
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