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Chapter 17 - Recommendation and conclusion
A post-view
Scientific or artistic?
Student deficiencies
Wisdom realizations
So what, and now what?
Function view
Postmorteum
Review. The dissertation
has come to represent an
exploration process - into writing, into referencing, into
linearity, into functionalism, into publication
technicalities, into the documentation of a learning
process.
If the doctor of medicine restores
health, then a
doctor of philosophy can be seen to restore innocence and
freedom to an individual as an organization, or to an
organization of individuals.
Summary. The dissertation
is closed, the PhD degree
is earned, and the consulting entity of Function-View is
reformed. Function-View's pre-eminent client has come to
be
the author as his lone and whole self.
Next. Continue to promote
the personal advantages of
functionalism, Theory W, and Function-View.
A post-view
A pure functional world. Theory
W represents the
organization of the world into pure functional work tasks.
Theory W differentiates from formal organization which
historically traces to the earliest of military and church
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organizations. Function-View provides for an organization
which carries applied functionalism beyond the author's
personal realm.
Pure functional organization.
Any specific modern
organization has its own world of work, apart from the names
of the employees and their position titles. Employee names
and titles represent the who, through which the
organization's work comes to be actualized, not the work
itself. The who which does the work comes after the
definition of the work.
The strategist first defines the
aim of the
organization, then defines the measurable objectives which
motivate the individual worker. The strategist then defines
the worknet of tasks needed to implement the organization
objectives, and fourth, the individual workers are employed
to perform implementation.
Growth and good feelings. The
strategist formulates
or models the work of the organization by defining the
philosophic mission first. Then the strategist facilitates
objective measurement. The strategist then grows the
proaction of the workers much like a farmer grows crops -
the strategist witnesses to the growth of the organization
crop. The products which are grown or produced include
the
enjoyment of the workers and the world of consumer
satisfaction. Thus we have an inner world of worker
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enjoyment and an out-of-the-organization world of satisfied
consumers.
Scientific or artistic?
Table 133 - Scientific vs artistic
____________________________________________________________
constructs
vs idiosyncratic (personal)
validity
vs persuasion (church)
observation
vs empathy
collection
vs individual
standard report vs
varying style
object facts
vs selective emphasis
extrapolate
vs understand
collect data
vs own perception
neutrality
vs emotion
truth
vs diversity
===============
========================
together
vs apart
____________________________________________________________
Note- (211 28) is in previous chapter figure 89, p.873.
One gigantic pilot study? Perhaps
this dissertation
accumulated job experience and simply applied it for
personal use. That being the case, the productivity may
be
judged succinctly, setting the stage for further application
and research, and finally to other organization
improvements.
Pilot studies are carried out
with fewer subjects than
will be employed in the main study...It may lead
to
changing some hypothesis, dropping some, and developing
new...Increase the chances of obtaining clear-cut
findings in the main study...Data in the main study
may
be analyzed more efficiently...Reduces the number
of
treatment errors...Many research ideas that seem
to show
great promise are unproductive when carried out
in the
field...Get feedback from research subjects and
other
persons involved that leads to important improvements...
Try out a number of alternative measures...
(211 100-1)
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Student deficiencies
At the end of this dissertation
process, closing
became the push. Because of the excessive length of time
involved, the project developed as the author developed, as
did his external influences and geographic circumstances.
Still more time would not make this process more complete.
Thus contaminations and inadequacies are blended into the
closing process.
Completion versus closure.
Perhaps if a specific
audience with specific needs were placed, rewriting could
actualize to a better completion - a book or Harvard
Business Review article for example.
Errors of forced closure. Unresolved
incidentials
appear - in this student exercise they are considered normal
errors, not mistakes to be absolutely corrected. The author
more importantly moves on to other life-tasks. Examples
-
"***" appears in the addiction appendix.
Table B19 pp.a114-6 incorrectly references other
tables.
Table B33 p.a202 comes without any Table B32.
On p.a110 "(Alday" should be "(126"....
Bibliography. The absolute rigor
of citations from
writing-day-one cannot be overemphasized. A good job was
done, yet could have been better. For example, incomplete
1988 references were being reconciled and left inadequate in
the 1993 finishing work. The cross reference between the
author's reading and keyword topics should have been better
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documented as a logic trail, documenting the dissertation
process.
Parenthetic bibliography detaches
from the material
too much.
Computer frustration. Five computers
were used for
this dissertation - a Kaypro 10, a job provided MSDOS
desktop, a Toshiba 1000, a Compudyne with a 4-D size
battery, and a Compudyne 3SXL. Beginning with CPM which
offered excellent word processing software, the direct
transfer of data with an MSDOS board addition never did work
right. Even after a chip fix, the CPM hardware had hard
disk freezeups and intermittent shutdowns. The T1000 was
simply too small and the number of 3" disks unwieldy. The
3SXL provided adequate capacity but many keyboard letters
doubled up. MSDOS.5 helped with the numerous files and
LapLink permitted using the 3SLX and T1000 at the same time.
Overcoming the technology discouragements at an affordable
personal computer level was a major accomplishment.
Writing. Paragraph construction
eludes practiced
specificity.
Similiarly, because of file size
limitations of the
Tmaker software, which follows practical considerations, the
writing of file construction, like paragraph construction,
came to be more understood in the push to close - perhaps
necessity was the mother-of-invention, as in simply
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learning.
Wisdom realizations
In closing this dissertation,
a personal awareness as
to why this project was begun almost a decade ago, came to
be. The one word expression was wisdom.
The weekly review of 4494 expressed
a thought chain of
several w words - wisdom, wonder, whistle, which, wander,
will (choice), work. Harv, in his case study, seems to
be
searching for the wisdom of his life. He wonders about
patterns, about suggested problems, about alternative
solutions, and if anything needs to be done at all. Perhaps
an enjoyable bike ride should be chosen again. Or another
walk in the woods. And when will Harv get at those piano
lessons, not to mention the car maintenance.
In week 4494 Harv decided that,
regardless, he must
whistle. If he doesn't whistle, something is wrong with
him, and he can choose otherwise.
As Harv's computerized to-do file
was essentialized,
that choice in life of the next hour's act became naggingly
apparent. And the why of doing nothing became clearer -
people choose to do nothing for good reason, with no
explanation needed. Ironic that the next hour, Harv chose
to complete his dissertation.
For future hours, wanderings are
certain. Harv must
accept them with a whistle, with functional reorganization,
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and with the will to flourish in the chosen fulfillment of
his existence, relatedness, and growth (ERG) needs. In
that
actualization Happy Harv has always enjoyed work. Amen.
Wisdom defined. Regardless of
previous reference,
Harv researched anew the word wise. From thesaurus search
the word wise can be seen to mean advisable, expedient,
politic (advisable, expedient); consequent, intelligent,
rational, reasonable, sensible, sober, sound; alert, clever,
knowing, penetrating, perceptive, piercing, quick (sighted,
witted), receptive, responsive, savvy, sensitive; alert,
aware, mindful; astute, calculating, crafty, subtle, wily;
enlightened, just, rational, sensible.
The word wisdom can be seen to
mean (with some
personal interjections), culture, education, enrichment,
learning; data, discipline, facts, information, news,
science; faculty, gumption, judgment, logic, sense (common,
horse); knowledge, laws, philosophy, principles, thinking;
serious; laborious (Harv eventually finds HIS truth.),
uphill; dignified (Harv found Nancy disrespectful, and after
two months challenged with, "What is your agenda?"),
earnest, sober (Is Harv counter cultural?), stoic (Elaine's
past description of Harv.); acute, crucial, important,
profound, vital; critical, venturesome.
From Webster's Third the word
wis means to know - wiz
refers to the third definition of wizard.
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Wizard can be seen to mean, 1:
wise man, 3: endowed
with exceptional skill [not based on the normal curve but on
the finding of a niche].
Niche can be seen to mean, n.1:
a recess, a: a
hallowed space, b: a passage, c: space for emergency use,
2: a retreat for privacy, 3: work suitable for the
capabilities, or merits, 5a: the sum of the physical and
biotic life-controlling factors (as climate, food sources,
water supply, enemies), b: role of an organism in a
community, v.1: to place, a: to position for attention or
veneration, b: to settle or grow in a niche, c: secrete,
2: to construct or furnish a niche.
Thus this dissertation comes to
be Harv's niche in
world wisdom, subject to whatever discount, but no matter,
since Harv's choice is fulfilled.
World wisdom. The dissertation
process pointed into
the dictionary, thesaurus, bible, and the Library of
Congress Subject Headings. The latter details as Appendix
C
which places Theory W topic "beyond matrix organization."
The topic then leads to the recognized
authors within
that topic, thus the dissertation has a group from which to
learn. And there appears a group of key words which those
authors use.
Philosophy and the dissertation
need not be opposed to
science, but would better embrace science. And the
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potential of theoretical wisdom can be seen as superior to
justice, courage, and temperence (155 15). For example,
the
bible (as a art) per Appendix H provides a wisdom in "twelve
spirit commandments," which in turn can be seen as a science
much like the Maslow and Alderfer exploration of basic human
needs.
Beyond the bible, Appendix D explores
the religions of
East and West. The individual obtains wisdom from his group
- apart from the university establishment! The university
does not have a monopoly on wisdom.
In the secular sphere likewise,
it is normally
expected that an educated ego should have developed
away
from the simple infantile polarity of the pleasure
and
obedience principles toward a personal, uncompulsive,
sensitive relationship to empirical reality, a certain
adventurous attitude toward the unpredictable, and
a
sense of personal responsibility for decisions.
Not life
as a good soldier, but life as a developed, unique
individual, is the ideal. And we shall search
the Orient
in vain for anything quite comparable. There
the ideal,
on the contrary, is the quenching, not development,
of
ego. (197 22-3)
Developmental limitations were
readily apparent over
the dissertation years - even when writing directly about
wisdom (90q3) files were lost because of technical
difficulties, and later the exposing of relatively weak
positioning (91q2) was readily apparent. For the author,
these problems and the problem of being downsized was turned
to the opportunity of downshifting life actions, and
likewise upshifting life-quality expectations. Why was
the
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word.
The dissertation for the doctorate
of philosophy ties
directly with philosophy, for philosophy is "a love or
pursuit of wisdom.(61 sv)" And a philosophy which generates
a specific action map for the organization (see Preface).
Way was the word - a synergistic way.
Love and pursuit of growth through
writing requires
emotional encouragement, and without group support, the
progress can be slow at best, yet remains the best when
maintaining existence needs, and working on meeting
legitimate relatedness needs. One simply writes to people.
And writing can be encouraged in the early elementary
grades. Writing was the way - an organized way.
The wisdom hierarchy can be seen
as artifact
memorabilia, memory, myths, and libraries. To the why,
the
way moves past artifacts, memory, and myths, and moves
through the library with choices, writing along the way.
Work analysis. These detailed
life-experiences point
to how the weekly review analysis can lead back into the
reinforcement of the organization's strategy, providing
positive motivation for life fulfillment.
Although titled individually so
as to stand alone as
essays, these experiences are folded into the dissertation
without any heading recognition, the exception being the
resultant weekly review tables.
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Witnessing a wedding.
BRIDERS
An essay about love and marriage
by
H.Otto
10-21-94
Once upon a time, Harv was invited
by a potential
married-forever partner, to the wedding of her neighbor's
daughter. Harv was attentive, taking notes both literally
and figuratively. But the ending blessing caught him off
his guard, and although noteworthy, it escaped precise
recollection. Thus the following week he spent "his very
best" to followup on the impressive yet missing words.
He
found the following.
The priest blesses the bride and bridegroom. [with]
God the eternal Father keep you
in love with each
other, so that the peace of Christ may stay with
you and
be always in your home.
May your children bless you, your
friends console you
and all men live in peace with you.
May you always bear witness to
the love of God in this
world so that the afflicted and the needy will find
in
you generous friends, and welcome you into the joys
of
heaven.
And may almighty God bless you
all, the Father, and
the Son, + and the Holy Spirit. (138 84)
Harv finds several areas for thought,
(1) the bride and bridegroom terminology provide
too much emphasis on the female,
(2) the term Holy Spirit needs exploration,
____________________
138 Holy Spirit Catholic Church
(1994) "The marriage
ceremony of Fragle and Nordhues." Overland Park
KS: Marriage rite during Mass, p.84, solemn blessing.
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(3) a peace-living God needs definition,
(4) one's home needs definition,
(5) questioning the necessity of having blood children,
(6) finding one's authority to keep one's self in
love,
(7) finding consoling friends when afflicted and
needy,
(8) the hows of all men living in peace with me,
(9) the hows of finding generous friends, and
(10) to be blessed with the joys of heaven.
(1) Harv separates from the model
where there comes
the bride, then there comes the bridegroom - the groomer of
the bride. Harv embraces a wedding contract and ceremony
where each of the two individuals come equally into being
partners in the grooming of each as their self, and the
sharing of that self with mate and others. Harv missed
the
proverbial boat departure when he was to have learned
responsibility for his own self spirit. His model was Jesus
crucified, and his male relatives and in-laws were not
connectibly wise - in short, men die early. The traditional
wedding ceremony sets men up for their stressful demise.
(2) The bible and our culture
tell of a wholly self
spirit. Harv researched the word spirit.
Travels have taken Harv into several
churches - each
with some very pleasing attributes. Here's one.
All God does in man He does by
the Spirit. He is God
at work in the inner recesses of human personality.
Through the gift of the Holy Spirit
in Pentecostal
fullness the heart of the Christian believer is
made pure
from sin and perfect in love. The surest safeguard
against...threat is complete openness to the
Spirit. (139 9)
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Can this openness to a seemingly
external Spirit be
turned humanly inward as an openness to one's own human
spirit? From the dictionary, spirit is -
* 1 : the breath of life,
2a : a supernatural being,
2b : a supernatural, incorporal, rational being
or
personality,
2c : a supernatural being held to be able to enter
into and possess a
person,
* 3a : the active essence of the Diety serving as the
invisible and life-giving
or inspiring power
in motion,
3b : one manifestation of the divine nature,
* 4a : SOUL,
4b : a disembodied soul existing as an independent
entity,
5a : temper or disposition of mind, MOOD,
* 5b : mental vigor or animation,
CHEERFULNESS, LIVELINESS,
VIVACITY,
6 : the immaterial intelligent or sentient
part of
a person,
7a : the activating or essential principle of
something,
7b : an inclination, impulse, or tendency of a
specified kind,
* 9 : life or consciousness having an independent
type of existence,
* 11 : bodily constitution that is the source of
energy and strength,
14a: a special attitude or frame of mind
characterizing an
individual or group,
14b: the frame of mind, feeling or disposition
characterizing something,
* 15a: a lively or brisk quality in something,
* 15b: stimulated or high characteristics
(as liveliness, energy,
vicariousness, ardor,
enthusiasm, or courage)
in a person or his
actions,
16 : an individual person considered with reference
____________________
139 W.M.Greathouse (1958) The
fullness of the
spirit. Kansas City MO: Beacon Hill. Preface
page 5 by
S.Young. Book provided by the Nazarene Church.
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to characteristics
of mind or temper,
* 17 : a mental disposition characterized by firm-
ness or assertiveness,
ARDOR, COURAGE, METTLE,
20a: the essential character of something,
20b: the prevailing tone or tendency,
20c: the general intent or real meaning of something,
* 23 : enthusiastic loyality,
25 : Christian Science God,
- in spirits - is
: in a cheerful or joyful frame
of mind,
* 2 : to infuse with energy, ardor, or life,
ANIMATE, ENCOURAGE,
INSPIRIT, STIMULATE,
4a : to carry off, make away with, or remove
rapidly and secretly
or mysteriously,
4b : to convey to a destination in a secret or
mysterious way,
4c : to abduct or cause to disappear mysteriously.
(140 sv)
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* Harv's emphasis for his life.
Harv's case-study, the above starring,
and the
fullness of his resume and personal life indicates his
"breath" - he has and will continue to live perfect days by
discarding the Diety of Perfection and Contingency. He
asks, "What's next, why, and with whom?" Harv promotes
the
active essence of life as internalizing the Holy Spirit,
making himself a wholly spirit - he seeks to make that
special imprint or soul of his, known to others, in ways
which present mental vigor, animation, cheerfulness,
liveliness, vivacity, independence for the parties, a bodily
____________________
140 P.B.Grove, et.al.eds. (1961)
Webster's third new
international dictionary of the english language unabridged.
Springfield MA: Merriam.
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constitution that is a source of energy and strength,
briskness, ardor, enthusiasm, courage, firmness,
assertiveness, mettle, loyality, and joyfulness. Now we
switch from the dictionary of our culture to some bible
study of wisdom.
We enter and move through the
bible by using a
concordance. The words spirit, spirits, spiritual, and
spiritually provide 690 occurances for paraphrasing. A
table (not included here) lists the references and each
paraphrase. Further tables (not included here) group the
referenced paraphrases into summary categories for the
envisionment of a proposed spirited way of life.
A sentence-structure summary of
the categories
follows. The order represents the sequence of how a new
category came to be when the next passage paraphrase didn't
seem to fit the previous categories. Readers are invited
to
rearrange these spirit "commandments" to suit their wants.
Humans know the joys of traveling and movement.
The essence of human life is spirit.
The spirit resides in all levels of human condition.
The spirit of God is meant to be within each individual.
The human spirit grows from past and present generations.
The spirit is meant to represent individualism -
choice.
Mend a broken spirit first then the needer can listen.
From an internalized spirit comes favorable attributes.
Another's spirit may not look after your spirit.
Spirited ones have whollistic vision for their future.
Spirited people are open, work hard, talk, and write.
Spirited individuals are restless.
The paraphrase and categorization
are highly
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personalized, reflecting how Harv sees his world and how he
has taken the concepts of scientific case-study, life-time
in whole-hours, spirited life, God, and spirit references in
the bible to enhance his way in life.
(3) The religious idea of Trinity
provides several
principles for situational application in one's life, the
Father provides parent or formal organization authority, the
Son provides a model of sacrifice, the Holy Spirit provides
for a wholly spirit. For Harv, the latter provides for
a
peace-living internalized God. If God can be internalized,
does it then become god with a small g? Harv thinks not,
in
fact, Harv believes that the wisdom he has come to
understand dictates that The God is an internalized God with
the biggest G - the most powerful concept by humans for
humans.
(4) From the above, the internalized
God condition
becomes home, specifically one's physical body comes to be
the home of God, and more importantly, the home of one's
spirit self - the wholly spirit (interchangeable with Holy
Spirit if you like).
(5) One major distraction from
one's own self spirit
home comes to be a house filled with bride, a bride groomer,
children, family, and extended family. By mistake, these
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frequently become home. Or perhaps, "Home is where the
heart is." If one's heart places not within their self,
but
in the house, bride, children, family, extended family, and
house contents, then one has a problem, and perhaps many
interwoven problems.
(6) Harv has come to understand
that he, as a father
of children and employees, relatively subconsciously pursued
functional authority over formal authority. He sacrificed
formal authority in the name of love, relegating what wisdom
he had to share. His thinking into action was relatively
untempered - devoid of social skill. Like any skill, social
skill can be learned. Jesus' love can be seen as a social
skill and thus can be learned - that building and
maintenance of God's home as one's spirit, being the most
important. One's spirit can be seen as the God-given formal
authority for keeping one's self in love. Accepting
disrespect, for example, does not keep one's self in love.
(7) To keep one's self in love,
one must have
consoling friends at hand - to confirm the respect,
encouragement, and challenge functions of love. Harv has
learned that exposure to respecting situations, being able
to match present skill states of participants and bystander
facilitators. Again, love can be practiced as a social
skill beyond the internalized love of self. Friends as
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respectful talk companions, supercede activities such as
those provided by a bridge companion, dance companion,
traveling companion, and sex companion.
(8) Peace and easy-ness begins
with me. It makes
sense to Harv that he should take stock of his worldly
opportunities, and choose the easy-ness alternatives built
on a solid structure of fulfilled basic hierarchical
universal human needs. When he fulfills his
responsibilities to his self spirit, namely respect,
encouragement, and challenge, he can then provide peace
interactions with others, namely respect, encouragement, and
challenge. The best of my efforts will be peaceful, serene,
enlightening, and sometimes euphoric.
(9) Finding generous friends interweaves
the parallel
hierarchies of respect, encouragement, and challenge, of the
self and others'. The hows can be seen from words like
awareness, consciousness, thought, and action.
(10) To be blessed from thesaurus
definition means to
be holy (wholly and spiritual); great (Otto in German),
precious, splendid, superb - and as in exhalt, to dignify;
celebrate, worship; hallow, sanctify (absolve, clean,
purify). All subject to character assination, perhaps
elludicated in Senator Danforth's 1994 book about the
process - examples are Hill, Bork, Baird, etc. The joys
of
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heaven involve the actions which isolate one from character
assination (disrespect, discouragement, and codependency).
Closure and control. The
above analysis wrangle can
be seen as part of the Harv's case-study of relatedness
activities. Relatedness in turn can be seen as part of
Harv's Theory W worknet which follows. The analysis feeds
back into a previous chapter which places the weekly
variance into the why-strategy perspective.
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Table 134 - Week 4294 activity variance analysis
____________________________________________________________
Act Noun
Pre Done Consequence
___ _____________ ___ ____ ________________________________
1 sleep
0 yes troubled dreams vs sweet dreams
4194 sensical dreams
2 exercise 1
yes tapered off yet into poly jeans
4194 good progress
3 maintenance 2 yes apartment
and car vacuumed
4194 slime tubes
4 relatedness 3 yes expanding
to more friends
4194 settled
5 writing 4
yes co-de closed
4194 personal growth in CHALL file
6 dissertation 5 yes conclude
with continue command
4194 post-morteum
4194 use continue command
7 job
6 yes business card and brief to Lois
no bind books
4194 bind books
8 productivity 1 no eating
deviation heightened
4194 eating deviation
9 closures 8
yes more sleep accepted as ok
very good exercise although less
wash done, shoes polished
Rosemary and Irene bridge ties
writings tied to dissertation
CONCLUDE and FCDO worked
progress worked into Lois letter
exercise high led to eat high
4194 challenges
10 wants
9 yes substitute for eat high, no flab
daily writing hrs, piano, umpire
4194 piano, umpire, daily writing hrs
____________________________________________________________
Note: See case-study weekly review development in previous
chapter. In subsequent weeks, the history idea was dropped.
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STRESS
Functional life.
STRESS - IS IT WORTH DYING FOR
Notes following a video "sermon"
at the Village Singles
10-23-94
The items of lifestyle, behavior,
and health interact,
with the interaction called stress. And the stress can
be
deadly. Yet stress can do good things for you. It's
not
what you do in life but how you do it.
For example, the author(141) left
an academic career
with only eight years until retirement - a lifestyle choice.
He left academics to develop centers for the treatment of
life-threatening stress. The treatment bases on the
cognitive approach as opposed to the medicinal approach.
Opening flavor - (1) change is
the definition of life,
(2) there are challenges for today, and (3) there can be
commitments for tomorrow. Harv thinks he can change, but
into what? Answer - into what he undependently wants.142
Opening premise - humans have
lived 1600 generations,
1300 of which have been in caves. Thus there remains an
instinctive survival reaction, which in today's world, can
be suicidal behavior.
The two major combat zones are
the job and the home.
In the weekly life-cycle, the first days in these combat
zones are Mondays on the job and Saturdays for the home.
The suicide distribution for the week shows 26% for Monday
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STRESS
and 25% for Saturday, leaving 49% for the remaining five
days. These combat zones can be deadly.
For these combat zones, the author
has developed a
cognitive scheme of thinking steps,
1. mechanisms,
2. measurement,
3. management,
and a program aim -
A awareness,
I illness,
M scientific motivation.
The author engaged the problem of rocket scientists
____________________
141 Video of Eliot lecture at
a medical conference
shown at the Village Church, Prairie Village KS. Book based
on two decades of research. This sermon was attended by
Harv as Nancy's seeming social function, for the issues
raised were never settled between Nancy and Harv. Harv
judged Nancy as a sweet-tart and tightwad, completely in her
own interest, including the "things that just happen" in the
dependency family she has handily created. Harv tried
Eliot's fight recommendation, even in writing. Then Harv
opted not to flow to another self demise, thus he fled,
closing the Nancy-Harv "cooperative" with this writing.
Harv's inability to construct cooperative relatedness limits
his ability to proceed with growth action fulfillment - yet
he enjoys his "downshifted" activities and looks forward to
steady, even if necessarily slow, progress to his
life-fulfillment.
R.S.Eliot (1987) Is it worth dying
for? Bantam Audio.
Stress - psychology, sress - physiology.
R.S.Eliot & D.L.Breo (1984)
Is it worth dying for?: a
self-assessment program to make stress work for you, not
against you. New York: Bantam Books. KCPL 616.12E42i.
Heart--infraction--prevention, myocardial
infraction--prevention and control.
142 See previous notes and comments
on
co-dependency.
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dropping dead with no explanation. His post-morteum
activity indicated a brain-heart relationship - (1) the
workers were depressed, and (2) their heart muscles
indicated contraction band lesions.
The workers were depressed, not
due to their jobs of
firing rockets, but because of industry firings. The
workers were reduced to doing electronic repair, sacking
groceries, and taking amusement park tickets.
The workers had lost their identity,
their control,
and their self-esteem. Thus, it was not the job treadmill,
but the reactors learned from their past generations - their
mental survival context assumed the norm of sudden,
unexpected, and uncontrolled events. The human survival
reactors needed to be measured.
Reactors correlated with everyday
blood pressure.
among other variables. A video game tester provided a
central part in an experimental measuring scheme. The
resulting reactors identified were categorized as hot
reactors, hypertensives, and "normal" cool reactors. The
author then folded these into his program of individual
cognitive motivation.
In short, the author's program
consists of (1)
physical assessment, (2) personal health and life
orientation, and (3) the individual's learning portfolio.
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The individual client was then challenged to change two or
three of the burdens which were illuminated. Top insurance
sellers were used as an experimental universe.
Insurance salesmen were (1) pre-programmed,
(2)
challenged to change, and (3) post-tested. The results
were
significant.
The insurance sellers were able
to lower their blood
pressure, bring their weight down, incur a slower heartbeat
rate, yet had no change in life style as measured by an
extroversion index. However, their job week hours fell
from
70 hours per week to something close to a four day week.
Their life style changed from a survival mode to a
flourishing mode.
Back to the rocket scientists
- they succumbed to
invisible entrapment - "a struggle-defeat syndrome." Their
family wanted them to be something, most likely in the name
of family pride - in other words, a can of lit sterno was
placed under their coat tails. Keep in mind, however, that
the insurance sellers were able to keep their lit sterno
can, yet tip their life context from survival to
flourishing.
Signs of visible entrapment are
alcohol and drugs -
whereby the "scientists" survive rather than flourish.143
Sleep and avoidance of responsibility are other survival
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techniques. The "just surviving" quality of life does not
answer, "Yes," to the question, "Are you winning?"
From a 46 item quality of life
index, a handful of
items seem to be universal -
Home
Job
_______________ ______________________________
marital discord game-plan
failure
children
communication
time...
time for unexpected happenings
And what can be done about these
problems? Answers -
(1) do consecutive little things toward a more productive
life which are not self destructive, (2) balance life
activities in a scientific fashion, which means measurement
of some sort, and (3) change as little as possible at any
one time.
To change these life activities
in small amounts,
insight into behavior change motivation can help. The ABCs
of an emotion are -
A
an event (an observation)
B
a perception (usually family-pride based)
C
response (survive versus flourish)
In short, "I upset me," "You upset
you," thus we can
have control over our own upsetedness. On a scale of 1
____________________
143 The testimonial of a successful
auto repair
business proprietor points out the drink and no-think
entrapment mind-state. A no-drink life-style redirected
his
thinking to the actualization of higher quality levels for
his business and family life.
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through ten with ten being the top of the reactor scale, you
can reduce your reactor levels with self-talk. Some
benefits come into play.
Change
Irrational Rational
_________________ __________
___________
in reactor score 9 &
10 2 & 3
by self-talk from hate
to dislike
by self-talk from anxiety
to nervousness
by self-talk from depression to
sadness
TRY ON NEW BEHAVIORS ! Try smiling to anger.
Try cutting down on sensory overload.
Use the "six months to live" writing exercise -
Acts
Harv's application
_____________________ __________________________________
I have to do...
dissertation based on hierarchical
pre-requisites of relatedness,
maintenance, exercise, and sleep.
I would like to do... partnership, job for retirement
income, piano, beaching with van,
publication.
I don't need to do... thus those things are eliminated.
To help us become inundated with
reactor stress, we
usually can identify the "stress carriers" in our lives -
individuals who make those "I don't need to do" demands.
Solution - make believe they have a "brain tumor" and
lovingly treat them that way. Go through a muscle tensing
exercise to simulate the "let it go" mentality. Also pay
attention to your body messages - headaches, for example.
Plan your life and do control
variance analyses.
Simplify the bureaucracy in your
life.
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Plan for unexpected events - provide
slack time. Many
times we don't know how to do nothing (self-talk). Try
saying, "No." If your stress carrier throws you a guilt
ball, don't catch it!
Play and laugh.
Make a good thing better.
Engage in vigorous exercise.
Write down answers to these starter
phrases -
Harv's application
______________________________
I want a life style of... expanding capability.
The way
can be support, dissertation,
job, piano, van, publication.
My climate limits are... surmountable by travel.
My interests are...
hierarchical life productivity.
Love by knowing another better.
For Harv this means
developing friends - for example, Rodney and his current
mate, and other friends outside Nancy's family circle.
Other options are Village Potpourri and Friendship club
activities. Also accept bridge invitations from Rosemary
and Irene's man connection.
Finally - If you can't fight for
your self-interest,
and if you can't flee in your self-interest, then go with
the FLOW. In Harv's case, he has changed his life style
to
focus on the learning of his scientifically based
hierarchical basic human needs - he will continue learning
how to fight to preserve his choices and he supports the
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undependent choices of others. Harv remains determined
to
flee from co-dependency, and to flow with other's choices
which facilitate his and their own growth.
Postscript. For the third
week in a row, personal
writing has led back to Harv's weekly review.
Table 135 - Week 4394 activity variance analysis
____________________________________________________________
Act Noun
Pre Done Consequence
___ _____________ ___ ____ ________________________________
1 sleep
0 yes thought provoking dreams
2 exercise 1
yes progress yet marginal health
3 maintenance 2 yes clothes
and apartment bettered
4 relatedness 3 yes consider
couple opportunities
5 writing 4
yes wed essay, stress essay
6 dissertation 5 no wisdom
review waiting
7 job
6 no small controllership easiest?
no bind books
8 productivity 1 no marginal
health sleep needed
9 closures 8
yes cold sore and teeth may be well
excellent exercise
excellent home management
Rosemary bridge, Irene visit
firm life strategy coming
daily writing realized
resume circulation ready?
skip exercise after bike day
10 wants
9 yes Nancy and Harv life strategies
____________________________________________________________
Note: See case-study weekly review development in the
timed-task-work dissertation chapter. History eliminated
for brevity.
Life aims. After ticking
off the requisites of sleep,
exercise, and maintenance, Harv's relatedness strategy want
comes to the fore. He can evidentially look back at several
relationships. His first-relationship writing had these
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lines -
I pray that you are the adult for whom I am searching,
The companion, who puts me in my place, without
lurching.
The word adult, from dictionary
and thesaurus search,
can be seen to mean fully developed and mature.
But the word mature can be seen
as both an adjective
and most importantly, as an action verb - to develop (come
together), to grow (flourish), to mellow (vocal), to
progress (motion, movement); to derive (gain, realize), to
evolve (commute, convert, mutate), to unfold (expand,
extend, clarify).
Harv fulfills his continued life-long
development
wants through his life actions shown in the above table.
He
wills that these actions will not be reactions to others'
"you need to do for your self (really for me)" demands which
cause bad reactor-stress. Those others will take more than
I have to give, thus they will not take care of me when I
become overextended - in contrast with full extension with
cooperative care. Harv looks to cooperative care within
his
relatedness actions.
As Harv continues life-development
as far as he can
take his self, overextension becomes an issue - especially
when Harv's self-development becomes compromised.
Closure and continuation.
Harv has just ended another
trial relationship. Will Harv now provide the time, energy,
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and choice needed to bring fulfillment of his basic human
needs of existence, relatedness, and growth - what our
founders called time for life and liberty?
From thesaurus search the word
life can be seen to
mean actuality, being, existence, reality, truth, vitality;
center, core, crux, essence, nature, spirit, substance.
From thesaurus search the word liberty can be seen to mean
autonomy, independence, license; comfort, ease, freedom,
leisure.
Leisure time - that comes to be
an issue for Harv,
specifically in the support company he keeps, and more in
his recent past, the support company he does not keep.
Once upon a time Harv took a bike
ride, forty quick
miles for a lunch of a tenderloin pork sandwich with extra
onions, two small bananas, a green pepper, and a 50 ounce
soda. On the way back, on the paved shoulder of the road,
Harv found a Chrysler car emblem and a small rubber skeleton
within several yards of each other. He also found a penney
- a lucky penney stuck in the road tar. In fact, he found
two penneys - thus the trip put in two cents for the living
of his life.
With the emblem as a base, the
skeleton named Harv
stands saying, "Screw me, screw me! I am next to death
yet
I will wash your Chrysler car before my own!" Then there
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came another Saturday when he repaired her carpet, her
bedside lamp, and the cord retraction device on her garage
vacuum. This expert work led to a reward challenge for
the
next Saturday of scrubbing the kitchen-dinette linoleum
floor which had a bad case of stubborn dirt from a source
unrecognized. And, of more importance, the linoleum seams
needed to be resealed first!
Her carpet, linoleum, and wallpaper
seams have
apparently laid open for years! The maintenance man was
gone. He shot himself over never being able to do enough
for the family. That stress led to heart failure -
literally self-inflicted heart damage by gunshot. He
apparently had no heart left for the family. Would Harv
now
take his place under her philosophy of having a busy person
do ever more work for the seemingly inept family? Do they
sound like killers, or like stress carriers who practice
ineptitude, victimization, or other forms of
unresponsibility. Perhaps Harv now witnesses another
allegorical beehive where killer queens are at work, the
first was in Dover DE and the second quite possibly in
Overland Park KS. The queens are alive and well, whereas
many of the family members are dead or otherwise
incapacitated - quite on the opposite end from the
facilitating of fulfillment for a flourishing life of each
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family member. Whatever the case, Harv has now said, "No,"
to the Nancy challenges, and without so much as a thank you
to either queenship. His thank you rather comes for the
PBS
television program 144 that came on that same bike-ride
night. Harv identified with the program's concepts of
downshifting, job sharing, and comsuming less so that more
time can be shared with each other. Thus Harv continues.
Functionally, the not-enough-time
PBS program issue
directly follows the dieing-early Eliot issue. Both issues
come together as Harv's Theory W time-action choice as
willed by the individual in their organization.
The PBS program began with the
not-enough-time problem
of both single and dual parenting, working and non-working -
extended families conveniently ignored, that is, grand
parents, productive child work, and peer productivity.
Parents have been "forced" into
jobs to double the
family's consumption. According to a Department of Labor
spokesperson, one past wage earner could support another and
three children, now two wage earners can support two
children. Thus family organization time declines
dramatically.
____________________
144 J.DeGraaf (1994) Running out
of time.
Burlington VT: Box 2284. Seattle WA: KCTS, Oregon Public
Broadcasting.
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Another job time pressure comes
from a greater job
hour week. From a 1969 base, American workers have
increased in numbers, and they work 160 hours more per year
(J.B.Schor, The overworked American) - plus more commuting
time exists. Japanese now work 200 hours more per year
than
Americans, even to the point of fatigue, lower productivity,
less family time, and death from overwork. Ten thousand
per
year die from overwork. Once in his career Harv worked
100
hours per week for seven weeks in a row. On that same job
he drove from IL to MN cruising at 90 mph - he never sped
again and still fights the fast growth approach to life,
still not having learned the years'ago, corporate chairman's
personal explanation of the absence of instant genius on the
job. Harv has always looked for a smarted rather than a
harder way. Can a person think too much?
This made-possible doubling of
consumption gives us
more things, to the point of individuals not being able to
deal with the inundation - time wise. Freedom of choice
seemingly exasperates the too-little-time problem, for all
classes.
Daily talk time between marrieds
has declined to 12
minutes per day, yet to build relationships takes talk time.
Parents spend 40% less time with their children than a
generation ago. The majority of polled parents feel guilty
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over spending too little time with their children.
More child aloneness combined
with more freedom in
society can lead to trouble as well as much benefit.
Therefore many believe that parent-child time becomes more
important today than a generation ago. And in education,
parental involvement seems to be the most significant
indicator in education success.
In one company, a poll indicated
that 23% of the
employees took no vacation that year. Technology now
directly paces 26 million workers. For all stressors
combined, the cost to the U.S.economy comes to $100 billion
per year. Heart specialists call the problem time-urgency
which takes a toll on the body specifically showing as heart
trouble and less life expectancy. Polyphasing can be seen
as a problem indicator. Doctors say, "Slow down or die."
Harv recalls his mother saying, "Slow down, take your time."
A Japanese union fights for an
1800 hour job year, 150
less than the American job year, and much less than the 2200
hour average Japanese job year. More generally, today's
job
world does not allow more free time. In Peru, some tribes
meet their material needs in several hours per day, the
remaining hours dedicated to socializing and other leisure
activities. Classical Western civilization believed that
leisure time was important to community development and
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understanding of life. The Greeks saw the job as the means
to be free to do the liberal arts of writing, speaking, and
conversation.
The 20th century has made job
into a religion. Thus
the job now answers the questions of antiquity, "who am I,
where am I going, what does it all mean for me, what must I
do to be saved." Job has become an end in itself - leisure
now serves job, the communal focus now shifts to the job
place. And, not incidently, the job place finds itself
subject to downsizing, bringing to the fore the idea of
downshifting by the individual.
Our medieval heritage had a 9
or 10 hour job day with
a leisurely pace. However, there were 150 holidays - 365
less 150 would mean 215 days for perhaps 1900 hours in the
year, less than the present American and Japanese
situations. In Benedictine terms the "idleness of the soul"
was to be filled with work. Awareness of time was promoted
via bell and clock. Clocks appeared as center pieces for
the town and eventually the household. Optimization of
time, standardization, and predictability of outcomes arose
in the culture. Time was saved yet less time was released
for the liberal arts, even though higher education preached
the liberal arts. The culture made different choices.
Benjamin Franklin proclaimed that
adult work, in a
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measure of four hours each day would provide for all
necessities and comfort. Yet by 1900, 14 hour days had
come
into being with most holidays, outside of Sundays, being
abolished. Thus 313 days provided the capability of a 4000
hour job year. Individuals simply began to take Mondays
off, then organized labor in the 1880s demanded an 8 hour
work, 8 hour rest, and 8 hour do-what-you-will day. In
1938
the 40 hour week became law and organized labor was working
toward the 30 hour week. The 2100 hour and 1600 hour work
years had come into being - again. The 30 hour week lasted
until 1985 at the Kellogg Company. Expanded leisure hours
were seen to be the flowering of capitalism. A 22 hour
week
was predicted for 1985 and a 14 hour week for 2000.
Instead, consumption has doubled and the job week has risen.
Some individuals have downshifted.
The Urbanskas have
written Simple Living which describes their search for more
free time. Saltzman has written Downshifting. Consumption
can be replaced by more "free" time. Job sharing can
release time - for example, three employees work four months
on and have two months off. Business may be recognizing
that the family should no longer be pressured into further
breakdown. Yet many businesses are going to more overtime
and laying off workers. Record overtime hours over 1982
levels are worth three million jobs.
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Average vacation statistics are
revealing -
United States 2.9 weeks per year
academe
one year off every seven years
France
5 weeks per year
Holland 5
Germany 6 also
36 hour week, 400 less than U.S.year
also applies to 6 hour day with benefits
more downward hours and pay progressing
Spain
6
Sweden
6.5 weeks per year
Time can be seen as the essential
measure of quality
life as well as one's quantity of life. The Theory W whole
hour weekly work variance analysis can provide beneficial
insight and direction for an individual's self organization.
The above table folds back to a previous chapter, thus
Theory W can work for the organization of the individual,
providing the weekly means to a strategic aim. Weekly
"happenings" can fit into a pattern which can be subjected
to the control of the organization manager, in this case,
the individual as their self. This foundation provides
Theory W with the credibility of applying to larger
organizations.
Work analysis within wisdom realizations.
The
analysis of weekly work can be seen as complex, as
demonstrated by the foregoing essays. Yet organized life
complexities can be turned back into the workings of an
aimful organization - Theory W provides insight into those
functional organizational workings, providing for aimful
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choices when allocating resources.
Other wisdom realizations follow.
Incongruities in literature. From
the library
research portion of this dissertation project, the most
pointed example of differing translations follows.
Table 136 - Literature incongruities
____________________________________________________________
First translation contained no Bibliography or citations.
Second translation contained Literary Index of 118 citations.
CHAPTER TITLES COMPARED:
I. The Scientific Literature on the Problem of the Dream
I. The Scientific Literature of Dream-Problems (Up to 1900)
PAGE HEADINGS COMPARED: Literature of the dream
Dream-Problems
FIRST PARAGRAPHS COMPARED:
In the following pages I shall
prove that there exists
a psychological technique by which dreams may be
interpreted, and that upon the application of this
method
every dream will show itself to be a senseful
psychological structure which may be introduced
into an
assignable place in the psychic activity of the
waking
state.
In the following pages, I shall
demonstrate that there
is a psychological technique which makes it possible
to
interpret dreams, and that on the application of
this
technique, every dream will reveal itself as a
psychological structure, full of significance, and
one
which may be assigned to a specific place in the
psychic
activities of the waking state.
____________________________________________________________
Personal wisdom. From thesaurus
search the word
wisdom can be seen to mean education, enrichment, learning;
data, discipline, science; logic, sense; laws, philosophy,
principles, thinking. This dissertation represents wisdom
as Harv has been able to learn, to grow (as in collect,
gather, harvest, learn), and to contribute (as in write,
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submit for publication, teach).
Wisdom review. In concluding this
dissertation, a
review of the narrative concerning wisdom was made -
beginning with a love or pursuit of wisdom being the first
definition of philosophy. Wisdom and philosophy interplay.
From the above thesaurus search
we see that wisdom
concerns logic - from there we can tie to models and
modeling.145 From the glossary, models can be seen as
patterns or blueprints - therein lies a distinction. Are
you going to model as a pattern? Or are you going to model
as a blueprint?
A pattern would be statistical.
A blueprint would be
theoretical. But the blueprint would be theoretical only
if
the thing blueprinted were not yet constructed. And if
the
thing constructed would be in dynamic operation, as with a
human system such as an organization, the theoretical
blueprint may not be valid. However, the point of
distinction between statistical pattern and the valid
blueprint remain clear.
So what and now what?
There came a day when the author
saw on his own
____________________
145 1:practice, as distinguished
from theory;
application or use, as of knowledge or skills.
2:convention, habit, or custom. Random House (1993)
Unabridged dictionary. New York NY: RH.
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resume, the career of philosopher. Why did he put it there?
What credentials must a philosopher possess? What skills
are practiced by a philosopher? Where do philosophers work?
Whatever the answers, reading
the media could lead one
to believe that a philosophic career can be attractive.
Consider the following career comparisons.
Table 137 - Age of career usefulness
____________________________________________________________
philosopher
40-85
US president
36-80
accountant
35-50
historian
35-50
novelist
30+
personnel
30-45
salesman
21-35
advertising
22-30
computer
operator 21-28
painter
20+
lyric
poet 17-27
composer
15+
____________________________________________________________
Note- (245 2).
From a career in business and
past 50 years of age,
that worker would seem to be obsolete in the world of work.
The world of arts would seem a future, if you believe that
you could transist from one career to another [York
footnote].
Many of us dream of playing music,
no less composing
it. Song writing, however, may be possible - that's
possible, not probable. How about painting? Remember
the
joke where the fella says, "Yes, My daughter and I have a
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very good rapport. Last summer I painted the outside of
the
house with her." The observer replied [possibly looking
at
the painted house], "You should have thought about using a
brush." So much for being an artisan.
The writing alternative, however,
offers dual
potential. If one learns the way to write and practices
the
art, that skill can be used in conjunction with any career
or passtime. Of course the writer must have light in which
to write and if this author would redo a past lengthy
acknowledgement he would simply write, "To Patricia so that
she better appreciates the radiance which she gives to
writers."
Then there comes ye ol' philosopher,
the latest of the
career blooms. What's in a career that blooms so late and
lasts so long. [Can it be the radiance provided by a caring
Patricia?]
A lengthly career assumes that
worker lives that long.
Could one then argue that a career in philosophy can promote
longer life? Would the reason be less job stress, more
work
satisfaction, better working conditions, among other
benefits? What about a self-determination factor?
Can
these be possible, and even probable? The author believed
it when he used the career on his resume. The resume proof
follows. Perhaps he always had a philosophic bent or
continues to be generally bent.
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Table 138 - The philosopher career appears in the resume
____________________________________________________________
EDUCATED
earned "93" doctorate
in functional organization
79-92 certified management accountancy
70 master of business administration
60 mechanical engineering baccalaureate
CAREERS
Philosopher 90+ writing to continue life-long
growth
91 lived and traveled in Europe
Professor 85-93 PhD programs - BGSU Fielding
Kensington
85-90 Terra Concord Wesley Benedictine
Administrator 87-88 Concord Off-campus Evening Program
84-85 Terra Technical College - 1100 students
79 State of Illinois - credit unions
Consultant 82-84 Natl.Equipment Artec
Arndt etc.
79-82 Emerson - GE Conrail McGraw-Edison etc.
Manager 76-79 Springfield
Plastics - all operations
74-76 General Signal - DeZurik mfg.admin.
Controller 67-74 Brunswick - Mercury product
engineering
Engineer 61-67 Globe Union - Centralab
shop operations
____________________________________________________________
Yes, the author sees himself bent
toward philosophy.
Those who seriously pursue philosophy do so because
they
love it... The main motivation...stretches
the
mind...stimulates thinking about fundamental questions.
(243 305)
Now, at the finish of this dissertation,
what's next?
Do research...get information and organize it...write
clearly and effectively...communicate well...generate
ideas...formulate and solve problems...elicit hidden
assumptions...articulate overlooked alternatives...
persuade people to take unfamiliar views or novel
options
seriously...summarize complicated materials without
undue
simplification...formulate and defend policies...
integrate diverse data... construct useful
analogies...
distinguish subtle differences without overlooking
similarities...adapt to change...teach...(243 310)
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"Go forth and teach thy self!"
Maturation - lifelong maturing.
We all see that kids grow.
The stifling portion comes
when the words grow-up attaches to the statement. Thus
we
should not see kids grow up, because when they stop growing,
that teaches a certain stagnation. Rather view growth as
a
life-long process.
Thus Theory W associates with
constant growth in the
hands of the expert worker. This work's foreword uses the
ideas of challenge and growth to represent the life-long
maturation process. This very personal idea of life-long
maturation links directly with a worthy world-wide
organization Theory Which Theory W represents.
Theory T - teaching.
teacher
thinker
tireless
taunts
tiresome
tricks
treats
ties to wisdom and love
Personal meaning.
In order of reflective importance,
this dissertation
attempted to (1) clarify a tool to in turn clarify the
functions of organized human life, (2) experience a large
writing project, (3) associate the dissertation project with
further lively (creative) writing. The large writing
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project pointed to the development of (a) referencing
skills, (b) electronic word processing skills including
hardware maintenance, (c) printed format craftiness, (d)
ultimately coping with the linearity of the writing process,
(e) getting to the mental threshold of publication, perhaps
prolific, (f) requiring non-proliferation of many concurrent
projects which defeat closure of any one of the projects,
and (g) the setting of functional priorities for the
integration of life-work tasks.
The last judgement. Adages of
"being one's own man"
and "minding your own business comes to mind." This
dissertation certainly grounds to being my own and what my
business has been. What my business will be in the future
may be seen in a Theory W synopsis.
My W-words. Five decades ago my
aunt tells of my
wanderings as a three year old. I have not changed.
My
wanderings are based on the emotion of freedom and the need
of relatedness.
We all wonder about the past and
future, and about the
meaning of things in general. My wonderings are based on
the need for growth. Growth, however, comes only through
actualization.
Work actualizes one's needs.
The actualizations can
range through the hierarchy of existence, relatedness, and
growth. My work bases upon my need for existence, and
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through my experience and faith in work emotions of joy and
love.
Integration. From the above I
"see" that the w-words
of wander, wonder, and work provide a personal
interpretation of the psychology of emotions and the
psychology of basic human needs.
Ownership. I own me - "lock, stock,
and barrel." My
locks should guard my assets, yet my first thought was that
my locks were my blocks. My "live stock" can be vividly
seen as my self. Stock, then, should be locked until given.
My other barrels can be seen as a library, a set of
furniture, clothes, and vehicles.
Writing. The dissertation is written.
Now I rewrite
my resume and perhaps enter the world of publishing. My
prolificacy depends upon my wanderings, wonderings, and
work.
Widening. Upon printing 400 pages
of the dissertation
there came thoughts of being overextended in life. The
dissertation printing was going well and would continue.
Yet so many parts written over these years could have been
done better. So when does better stop?
In the case of this dissertation,
betterment stopped
and printing took priority. One could say that widening
stopped so as to facilitate the closure of the current state
of extendedness. The intellectual distance between the
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widening-state and overextended-state deserves further
narration.
The thought of being overextended
used the phrase
"span in life."
Challenge. The respect, encouragement,
and challenge
of the self, of and for the self, must be balanced. To
be
balanced, any organization must regulate the giving of
respect, encouragement, and challenge so as to preserve and
reserve a certain amount of internal self-respect,
self-encouragement, and self-challenge - enough to nourish
the self in love, the other emotions, and the conditions and
context for a whole self, able to unlock and give from its
"stock and barrel."
The final product: WISE
WORK of organization members
on and off the job.
Function view
The Theory W pyramid has three sides
and a base. One
of the sides offers functional analysis for the purpose of
improving a designated organization. The business entity
of
Function-View provides functional change improvement for
clients.
"Job tasks connecting to the mission."
Postmorteum
From dictionary search the word
postmorteum can be
seen as meaning - 1a:of or relating to the period after
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death, 2:an examination or analysis after the event. Thus
included here are several items pertinent to the
dissertation yet "removed."
Wrangles. As the final stage of
the dissertation came
to be, wrangles occured. Life-time available for the
completion was certainly the major factor, yet time for
other activities frequently left no time for dissertation
writing. Thus wrangles occured.
Life's normal course in Harv's
case-study was
hierarchical constructed as the layers of sleep, exercise,
maintenance, relatedness and associated writing. These
activities frequently took priority over dissertation
activity. The hierarchical scheme was based on Alderfer
and
Maslow science. Because of the hierarchical assumption
of
basic human needs, wrangles occured because not enough time
was left to expeditiously finish the dissertation - even
without a job. For many years attempts were made to finish
the dissertation while teaching at the college capping
course level - the attempts were not successful. At times
the possible conclusion occured, that this quality-of-life
status would persist forever. In reality, however,
progressive wrangles occured whereby time would be released
for the activity sequence of dissertation writing,
professorship job, and career activities.
Incidential time consuming wrangles
occured - there
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was a series of two-flat bike rides. Another wrangle was
that a serious relationship providing much wrangling. And
that wrangling promoted further wrangles with eating and
sleep. The most serious wrangles were closed with the
assistance of writing - so vital to the rationalization
process.
The wrangle process or life-difficulty
process
continues as one's life time continues. But the smarter
we
get, the easier it becomes to emphasize closure of some sort
or style.
Closure. Can some wrangles be
lost forever, as in
disappear as a not needed time consumer - never again to
interfere the legitimately judged activity time chosen
around the basic needs of existence, relatedness, and
growth? In one sense, "Yes, wrangles can be eliminated."
In another sense, "No, wrangles cannot be eliminated, and
must be dealt with on a regular problem-solving basis."
For example, a relatedness wrangle
can be closed with
a seven page essay - on the other hand the essay's summary
exhibit can lead to dozens of other wrangles. Another
wrangle concerns biking and a series of two-flat occurances.
These wrangles take time to solve, especially when one
chooses to seek a relatedness partnership, and continue to
ride a bike in thorn territory.
In a general life-scheme, when
one chooses a definite
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high quality of activity, encompassing the lower
hierarchical basic human need levels of sleep, exercise,
maintenance, and relatedness - definite time allocations
must be spent. These time allocations require patience
and
ingenuity (creativity) - especially when one has growth
activities to actualize.
For example, growth activities
such as case-study
career-type writing, a dissertation, a growthful
career-progression job, and last but not least, learning to
play and playing the keyboard.
Control. To assure patience in
developing productive
and efficient lower-hierarchical time allocations, a weekly
review can be used - judging each activity complete or not.
The consequence from each weekly activity may provide
concise direction for the coming weeks efforts.
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Table 136 - Week 4194 activity variance analysis
____________________________________________________________
Act Noun
Pre Done Consequence
___ _____________ ___ ____ ________________________________
1 sleep
0 yes sensical dreams
2 exercise 1
yes good progress
3 maintenance 2 yes slime
tubes
4 relatedness 3 yes settled
5 writing 4
yes co-de closed
6 dissertation 5 yes post-morteum
use continue command
7 job
6 no bind books
8 productivity 1 down eating deviation
9 closures 8
yes challenges
10 missings 9 yes
piano, umpire, daily writing hrs
____________________________________________________________
Note: See case-study weekly review development in previous
chapter.
An unconnected wrangle. The three
above wrangles are
each resolved with the weekly whole-hour variance analysis.
The following prior wrangle was not - it presents a certain
written searching process, not closed by turning the
problems into the Theory W scheme.
This section began as "A challenge
for Nancy" and
within days the challenge boomeranged.
Nancy was such a good married-forever
possibility that
the relatedness with her caused Harv to see clear of his
dissertation phase. Of course, dissertation progress
to-date has also been a cause. Thus in Harv's case study
the shortest synopsis can be presented as, "A search for
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universality - 1984-1994."
Preliminary word play. In
the process of
electronically writing about the topic of challenge, the
file name chall was created. That file name can be
pronounced as the word shall. Used in sentences, this
little item of word play becomes, "Shall I...," and "Shall
we...?"
Basis of challenge. The
prerequisite for Harv to
challenge Nancy can be seen to be the evidence of Harv's
life philosophy - the acknowledgement section of his
dissertation.
Challenge dialogue. The
circumstances are certainly
impromptu, yet not necessarily randomly occuring. "The
harder (and smarter) one works, the luckier they get."
And
"practice makes perfect," especially in 20-20 hindsight
reflection and postmorteum analysis. The personal card
can
serve as the basic outline for talk.
Harv's personal card. The
personal card took
approximately three years to develop, paralleling Harv's
working of the Kansas City single's marketplace, culminating
with membership in the Village Singles.
The development of a business
card also took place
during this period. And it started earlier, perhaps six
years earlier. The continuation of the dissertation process
during this "lost" time supported the definition contained
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in both the personal and business cards.
Why such a lengthy period?
Perhaps rather, "Why not
take as much time as needed?" And even under contrary
advice, that is, to settle the job situation first, the
personal card issue never took second place, although not
always obvious.
Although as short as possible,
the card must be
detailed enough to capture the essential issues brought
forth by the challenge of a life philosophy.
Partnership. Harv defined
his need for Nancy to
maintain her own self. He was apparently getting a hold
on
his self or spirit. Then the two could work on the aim
and
support of the third organization structure, that of the we
cooperatively together.
Nancy attempting to feedback what
I want to here has
to be a continuing problem for Harv. The women go along
for
the ride. Or perhaps both go along for the ride!
Separate finances. Harv
uncovered Nancy's need to
make sure that a certain sum of Nancy's money was tracked to
her kids per her desire.
Harv introduced the topic of his
cash flow into the
new we organization but the outcome was not that.
Reintroduction will happen.
Supportive. Harv has taken
the leadership role - in
his own interest, but not at the expense of Nancy's
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interest. Harv has that ability - he can do that function.
The Ruby axiom of married forever,
being the want to
be with each other, has come to fruition.
Harv requested input as to the
required increase in
his financial responsibility - probable job. But what level
and when was answered by Nancy as, "Do the best you can."
Aimful. Harv resisted becoming
more involved in
Village Singles, yet went to those functions to support
Nancy's interface with her friends.
Problems for Harv. Although
other individual's may be
challenged toward some philosophic point of mutual interest,
there appears to be, in practice, an unlikeliness that an
individual may challenge their self. Perhaps with one
exception. The exception may be the written expression
of a
life philosophy. Directly "under" a life philosophy there
are goals and then many objectives. The goals and
objectives can be seen as the solution to the challenge of
the life philosophy. The goals and objectives then, in
turn, need to be fulfilled or satisficed, not necessarily
solved. The solutions process proceeds as problems occur
along the timelines of goal and objective activities. Thus
once Harv establishes his life philosophy, the fulfillment
of same comes to be problematic but not challenging.
Challenge thus holds ready for
use as a action of
confrontation, questioning, waking, calling, or soliciting.
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Harv thus challenges others.
Challenge versus attack.
In the process of
structuring "shall we" situations, like "shall we separate
finances," Nancy felt that Harv was attaching her. Attacked
feelings were overcome with a process culminating in hugs.
The way from whence. Working
back, Harv reentered the
Village Singles' marketplace in July-August 1994 being more
fit from bike riding. The last of four dance classes was
very enjoyable. The first volleyball play seriously
wrenched a left foot, but not as serious as the previous
same-location wrench around 1980. The recent injury has
gradually shut down bike riding, dancing, and even walking.
Bridge has been enjoyable, with the most enjoyable session
coming in conjunction with the best dance class. In
summary, the summer weight loss and discriminating selection
of activities has provided enjoyment.
In parallel, Harv's mate search
looked at Linda,
Pearl, Janice, Rose, Janet, and Pat. Acquaintenances Irene
(bridge), Rod (dance), Jean (dance lessons), and Ralph
(another seeker) provided input.
Philosophic cooperation. A wrangle
of this sort can
be judged to be far from the dissertation's field - yet the
wrangle takes time, lessens productivity assuming the
dissertation paramount (which it is not), and this
dissertation's theory should direct time to the case-study
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organization's aim. Here then comes a minuette in Harv's
case-study - let's see if Theory W can apply.
Once upon a time, in the darkness
and din of a Kansas
City bottom's establishment, there appeared on a drink
napkin through a gentleman's pen, the words - "serious
business." The lady added in script, "what is?" The
gentleman's reply, printed as the third line on the napkin -
"LOVE." The music played on, and in the aisle-way they
danced. Perhaps they were in love. Regardless of
condition, the gentleman had already decided and was
continuing to simply state to the lady at appropriate times
- "I love you."
Part of the gentleman's loving-in-life
scheme includes
the solidification of personal freedom through the use of
growth oriented writing. Toward that life-long end and
for
the more immediate objective of wooing the lady, he submits
this "essay" triggered by the lady's destinction that
something might be deficient in their love life.
One fine day, among all fine days
when one is in love,
came the makings of at least one philosophical discussion.
The lady provided two points of distinction about loving,
"Give up self - no," and "Give up life - yes."
The gentleman would like to first
establish and think
thoughts of him as a self - himself. And these same
thoughts could be thought about her self. For the
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gentleman, he thinks of his self as his point of choice.
He
physically pictures that choice-point floating around within
his feelings "pie." If you quarter the pie, the cut lines
represent the continuums of joy-sorrow, and love-hate, with
freedom-fear being the circumference of the pie. For
example, the gentleman's writing comes from the point of
choice being in the joy-love quadrant and the extention of
the freedom edge of the pie - thus he chooses to write.
He
also chooses to say, "I love you."
For him, a life with her, presents
more of joy-love-
freedom probability than of sorrow-hate-fear. Much
individual and partnership work will go into making that
challenge into an actualization and fulfillment.
One fine day the gentleman felt
good enough about the
relationship so as not to hold his love back - thus a simple
"I love you" was sounded. Over several days, the "I love
you" choice was reinforced as the gentleman felt really good
about the relationship. Then one "I love you" brought a
response of, "But you don't know me." Some poetry resulted.
A beginning of a love flight,
Does not instantly deliver the full height.
In boarding this flight, I know her direction enough,
And I have exposed my understanding of the tough stuff.
From the inside out I know about me,
In turn - does she know about she?
My material wealth is more cashed,
Her material wealth is more flashed.
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Plus many more differences - can she reconcile these?
And will our activities continue to please?
In this process of life called
pleasing, his and her
self must be maintained - that remains the responsibility of
the individuals, and results in confrontations with the
partner. And if the partners are committed to talk,
synergistic activity, and closeness, then those
confrontations can be growthful - thus everybody wins.
Thus
the strengthened individual can have more capacity for their
self and others. Assuming that more capacity is
self-fulfilling and better for the surrounding others.
Returning to the lady's, "Give
up life - yes." The
gentleman adds other interpretations -
Give up life
- yes.
Give up life-time - yes.
Give up time
- yes.
In general, without time details,
the gentleman's
number one and number two goals are -
Enter aimful supportive partnerships,
or
Enter aimful supportive relationships.
Write dissertation full-time until
completion.
The term supportive partnership
better directs focus
onto the contribution responsibility of each individual.
The gentleman interrupted his
courtship of his lady to
link up with his daughters and son - four separate
individuals and three partnerships with different aims.
With his lady, the partnership count goes to four. The
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gentleman promotes mutually supportive good-feelings
activity with these individuals. But what are the aims
of
those partnerships?
One of the partnerships could
be described as a
"speed-by" yet courtious interaction - but not serious, as
in "serious business." In a specific sense, the gentleman
doesn't fit in partnership with one of his kids - yet that
kid did evidentially contribute support to the gentleman in
feeling good about himself. Yet the gentleman must stay
away from that portion of his tradition which he believes,
provides the bad stress which can be seen to probably lower
the quality and quantity of his life.
In general, the gentleman recognizes
his social needs,
and has developed a definite functional approach toward
continued basic human need fulfillment.
The number two goal of dissertation
completion aims
first at self-application, then at career application.
Dissertation self-application
directs helping visits
to his kids, and the followup promotion of letter writing,
and other writing. One child has already published.
Perhaps the gentleman attempts to develop his kids into
writing friends - a sort of new family tradition. And a
new
personal tradition.
Where concrete objectives are
concerned, the
dissertation's career-application has a number four place
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where concrete objectives are concerned. The low ranking
reflects the failure of job and client relationships to
provide stable support. Evidential objectives which fill
out the gentleman's goals are -
Get job first.146
Talk, acts, and closeness with
partners.
Dissertation completion December
1994.
Article on 15% student study improvement.
Job interviews.
Nancy m/Marriage after four seasons.
Another semi-retirement from year
2001.
Partners can be seen as friends,
and the gentleman, in
his self-case, consciously chooses his friend-time. Many
of
the gentleman's friends fall by the wayside as his
life-travel continues. In job and personal life, the
gentleman can be seen to have a pattern represented by the
phrase, "I run good feeling partnerships as life successes,"
and "I don't run bad feeling partnerships as life failures."
The gentleman's thoughts about
his current and recent
friends -
____________________
146 Per unemployment counselor,
Ingrid?, Patricia,
Roselea, and Nancy.
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Table 140 - Analysis of Harv's recent friends
____________________________________________________________
Name Description
_______ ____________________________________________________
Nancy potential married-forever partner, dance, sex,
talk
support the freedom
life she made - Ms.Nancy maiden
employer Dr.Goldman
seems to have matching wants
daughter Laurie moving,
Nancy seen as 4 bath "queen"
daughter Jenny uses
me as a parent, Nancy seen as 14
daughter Carol remote
fix aligned with defroster
daughter's boyfriend
Marty with different parenting
Lois past VS, Unity minister, responds to letters
(see latest letter
from Lois - excellent flavor!)
Irene Village Single (VS), youthful spirit, "mom"
feeds me
Mom getting better as I take the lead
Chris son needs dogs delivered, wisdom > age, database
daughter Sue talks
some of relationships
daughter Lisa brought
me veggies, AAA triptik
Carol cousin looking for a man, fighting similar
tradition
Howard built his deck, traded computer interest
Harry not employer, as landlord, yells at bridge
partner
tenant Max has less
exposure, volkswalks
Atchison couple's
bridge
more previous VS ticket purchase, activities
as needed
Nanette has not written since baby
------- past chrono friends, no initiative from either part
Roselea has not contacted me, not my nondependent match
Patricia instant job agent to match her income dependent need
Ingrid has not contacted me, not available, Terry dependent
Hugh NE KS minister who never wrote after he
moved away
John after divorce sounding board, married
and past mayor
Jan has not contacted me, new husband
built her a house
Minette no contact, my age, body, never a job, dead "king"
Karen I visited years ago, still steady with Phil
then
____________________________________________________________
Note: Ranked in order - best friends lead the list. Friends
require time. "A friend in need is a friend indeed," and
"A
friend indeed is in deed."
The time required to cooperate
with loving friends,
including some self-time, reaches a substantial sum. The
table below tracks relatedness time in a 24 hour day and a
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168 hour week context for validity. The relate-to-selves
loving-friends function includes respect, encouragement
time, and leader challenge.
Table 141 - Relatedness and other hours
____________________________________________________________
Verb Noun
Week and hours
_________ ____________ ____________________________________
w36 35 34 33 32 31 30 29 28 27 26 25
relate to selves 71
62 46 50 64 55 32 29 49 34 57 54
maintain body/mind 48 55 65 65
55 65 66 66 65 66 64 71
pursue exercise
20 15 7 10 10 16 14 39 29 46 28 18
maintain assets
19 22 29 15 10 3 14 12 15 12 12 14
do job
5 9
6
write dissertation 4
21 22 7 29 26 10 2 1 1
pursue writing(art) 1 5
6 22 8 11 10 8 6 10
measure lifetime 168 hours
per week
measure production 71 67 61 61
67 61 61 61 61 61 62 58%
____________________________________________________________
Note: From Harv's Theory W case study. Ranked in hour order.
Playing a spelling game with the
word friends -
F R I E N D S
F I E N
F I N E
R I E D S
R I D E S in one's life-time.
With friends then, we have fine
rides which take time.
Fine rides can be seen as fun - not the fun of amusement or
diversion, but rather of joy and playfulness, a playfulness
which avoids hurting and promotes respect, encouragement,
and challenge.
A challenge can be seen as a defined
problem, a posed
question, a previewed controversy, a sort of war in its
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narration. To challenge means to confront, to question,
to
wake, and to call.
Recalling from above, we have
serious business, we
have loving in life, not giving up self as choice, but
giving up time for the partnership. Better put, one spends
time toward a calling or aim. Perhaps the partnership has
a
calling, and each individual has their own aim, explicit or
not.
The lady has said, "I want you,"
and "You don't know
me." Does the lady claim to know the gentleman? In
any
case, the relatedness simply begins - and the relatedness
continues based on mutual activities toward a partnership
calling or aim. What are the three aims? What are
the
individual responsibilities or contributions to each of the
three organizations?
One aim may serve all - good feelings
of togetherness.
The gentleman's contribution - physical time with the the
lady, from being a person of stature to providing good sex.
In the middle stands the ability to maintain assets - from
trust in himself to physical home maintenance. Career
contributions include dissertation completion, further
publication, and some form of a less than full-time job,
providing time for a more quality life of less stress, more
years, and higher fulfillment of good feelings with another
and others.
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The interjection of this late-breaking
case study into
the dissertation can be seen to point to a simply purpose.
The dissertation can be understood to be a personal task of
applying the business administration principles of
functional organization to the gentleman's own personal
life. Thus achieving a personal freedom first, and
scientific universality second. The personal freedom
actualization includes a married-forever relationship with
Nancy.147 That organization's functional organization
still wants for evidential definition and thus cannot be
included in the body of the dissertation, yet has the prime
importance for the author's personal fulfillment and drives
most of the then current "relate to selves" time spending by
the gentleman.
Electronic outline. There came
a time in rewriting
this dissertation when it became apparent that an electronic
outline was needed to guide the narrative organization.
The
specific incident of not knowing where to put stray
narrative began the problem definition.
Simplistically, the computer can
be used to simply
____________________
147 Nancy has expressed concern
about the
interchangeability of her in the married-forever scheme.
A
previous table displays how the author moves through
friends, possibly as he grows, and probably as he has better
understood himself and his needs. All in the context of
not
enough time to complete the dissertation faster.
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replace the typewriter when writing. But that means that
the outline never becomes an integral part of the electronic
writing process. Another problem was recalled.
The problem of linking files when
printing was never
completely solved - file sizes became unwieldy when moving
pieces of narration to other files. Tmaker software,
specifically, had a preset file size limit, thus when moving
a piece, the out of space message caused a certain break in
the writing process - the creative process was broken and
the technical process took precedence. Now this problem
could possibility be solved along with the solution of
providing an electronic outline integral to the computerized
written work.
The solution idea was to create
an print output file
which would not only control printing, but would also
provide a readable outline of the written work.
Previously, the computer was used
to automatically
feed the work's headings to content and index files. This
provided an after the fact outline - never really leading
the written work's narrative organization. A print file
was
constructed in the form of an outline. Abbreviations
readable by the author were used for the eight character
maximum file name. The file which housed the outline was
named OUTPUT since it would handle both functions - an
outline and the printing. Several phases evolved.
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Table 142 - Theory W output file - phase 1
____________________________________________________________
print nonstop theos
print nonstop theow
print nonstop idw
print nonstop memw
print nonstop firow
____________________________________________________________
Note: The abbreviations represented the five dissertation
parts - past theories, Theory W defined, Theory W applied to
the individual, Theory W applied to members as an
organization, and measuring performance before and after
Theory W use.
A problem resulted when running
TWOUTPUT (Theory W
output file) only the first line was executed - versus the
following TWOUTPUT which would run all the parts.
Table 143 - Theory W output file - phase 2
____________________________________________________________
print nonstop theos print nonstop theow print nonstop idw pr
____________________________________________________________
Note: The abbreviations of the last two parts are beyond the
computer's screen window.
The solution was obviously unsatisfactory
- one cannot
read it as an outline. Further programming offered a
modified solution.
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Table 144 - Theory W output file - phase 3
____________________________________________________________
print nonstop theos g twoutput 2 do
print nonstop theow g twoutput 3 do
print nonstop idw g twoutput 4 do
print nonstop memw g twoutput 5 do
print nonstop firow g twoutput 6 do
____________________________________________________________
Note: The abbreviations represented the five dissertation
parts - past theories, Theory W defined, Theory W applied to
the individual, Theory W applied to members as an
organization, and measuring performance before and after
Theory W use.
TWOUTPUT will now print all five
part files and one
can read the outline. But under the weight of practical
complexities the solution was again in trouble - any minor
change meant manually redoing the line number links. For
example, there are, in reality, eight parts to the
dissertation.
Table 145 - Theory W output file - phase 4
____________________________________________________________
print nonstop front g twoutput 2 do
print nonstop theos g twoutput 3 do
print nonstop theow g twoutput 4 do
print nonstop idw g twoutput 5 do
print nonstop memw g twoutput 6 do
print nonstop firow g twoutput 7 do
print nonstop appw g twoutput 8 do
print nonstop back
____________________________________________________________
Note: The line numbers have been changed.
That solution is tolerable thus
the addition of more
reality ensued - the chapter divisions were added.
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Table 146 - Theory W output file - phase 5
____________________________________________________________
print nonstop front g twoutput 2 do
print nonstop theos g twoutput 3 do
print nonstop badmhist g twoutput 4 do
print nonstop eadmhist g twoutput 5 do
print nonstop orgwebs g twoutput 6 do
print nonstop orgauths g twoutput 7 do
print nonstop theow g twoutput 8 do
print nonstop 3sidedw g twoutput 9 do
print nonstop hypsw g twoutput 10 do
print nonstop instow g twoutput 11 do
print nonstop idw g twoutput 12
do
print nonstop time g twoutput 13 do
print nonstop wnet g twoutput 14 do
print nonstop worker g twoutput 15 do
print nonstop idcases g twoutput 16 do
print nonstop memw g twoutput 17 do
print nonstop whyw g twoutput 18 do
print nonstop bcases g twoutput 19 do
print nonstop ecases g twoutput 20 do
print nonstop firow g twoutput 21 do
print nonstop casing g twoutput 22 do
print nonstop firob g twoutput 23 do
print nonstop finiw g twoutput 24 do
print nonstop appw g twoutput 25 do
print nonstop back
____________________________________________________________
Note: The line numbers have been changed.
Unfortunately, the parts are now
indistinguishable
from the chapters. After attempting a more complex
solution, a simple indention served the visual separation
need. Now the full complexity of a real leading outline
was
loaded and modified as needed. Other indentions were added
for sections and sub-sections. The result was a workable
leading outline AND a print command file. Separate note
files could now be integrated expediciously without the
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entanglement of exceeding file size limitations or
sequential numbering of files by their part and chapter
numbers.
As TWOUTPUT file construction
proceeded, glaring
instances called for correction - seemed like a proof of
effectiveness. Some areas were obviously chaotic - some
even without section titles. Yet the changeover result
was
solid, leaving no room for chaos - just room for displaying
organized direction for the writing process.
The changeover process preserved
dual systems, the new
carrying forward, and the old left alone since 460 pages
were already printed. Those pages were not the heart of
the
dissertation work. Printing of the front materials and
the
appendicies was like getting the support materials out of
the way - a good result. However, the heart of the writing
operation was still to be resuscitated. The outline in
the
specific form of file twoutput proceeded to be the solution.
TWOUTPUT was provided with three
levels of meaning
file names intended to be readable to the author. The old
"numerical" file name system was added to parallel the new
file names. TWOUTPUT was printed in condensed print
stripped of print commands and page breaks were established
to maximize readability.148 The outline function in
TWOUTPUT can now take the lead in the electronic writing
process.
Conclude
Theory W 969
Meaningful file names are now created
with the outline
and the (re)writing process simply filling those files
without fretting about correct sequential printing. The
print command function integrates with the outline function.
This was a fundamental element in learning to write
electronically so as to facilitate understanding and idea
communication at the book production level.
Other levels of written production
would be the
journal, letter, poem, speech, course paper, essay, notes,
notes with added critique, thesis, and dissertation. With
completion of the latter, one would be prepared to write for
publication - the dissertation being in significant part, a
student exercise. Now on to some substantial writing
production, at whatever level.
The printout of TWOUTPUT instantly
became penciled
with what can be identified in general as complexity of
thought - as opposed to the linearity of writing. Thus
an
attempt was made at paperless outlining, to go along with
paperless writing (electronic writing). The paperless
aspect reflects the student's less-encumbered expression of
the organized version of mind's thought complexity.
Job tasks, including writing tasks,
are linear - and
subject to closure and post-morteum analysis for the purpose
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148 At last count TWOUTPUT printed
six pages.
Conclude
Theory W 970
of input into future tasks. Those future tasks can be
"limitless" in the sense of numerous choices. And even
selected choice can lead to a complexity of life which could
easily be seen as confusing - to self and/or to others.
The
linear process supports the quest for clarity, yet does not
guarantee clarity. Only the human mind, with linearity
organizing complexities of thought, can provide clarity.
And perhaps with clarity achieved, there will be no one to
listen - and we die alone, leaving others to live their
complex of linearities. Thus individual organization comes
under study.
Individual organization must pass
the test of
practically, or better said, be open to improvement. As
TWOUTPUT was worked, it more and more paralleled the content
file which in fact stretched over two files, even without
the index level detail. The test of practically seemed
to
prove the reinvention of the contents file. Work proceeded,
attempting to eliminate the extra TWOUTPUT file.
What then happened to the idea
that the electronic
outline integrated with a print command file, would drive
the writing process, and specifically the rewriting process?
Seemingly, the "after the fact" contents file served that
purpose, being automatically rerun until no more changes
evolved.
Then what of the leading function
of the outline? The
Conclude
Theory W 971
leading outline could well be handled mentally along with
the title page, an explanation of parts probably in the
abstract, an explanation of the chapters, and finally the
contents file. When rewriting, for example, a specific
chapter, the part files were also tagged along to provide a
vehicle for moving files away from that specific chapter,
yet not muddling the moving process by having to pinpoint
exactly which chapter or subchapter should receive the
material. Part files were cleaned when a chapter of that
part was rewritten. Thus a large dissertation could be
rewritten with a relatively small amount of computer space.
An old T1000 with chip drive worked well for writing and
rewriting, and with the above scheme, the work was
facilitated.
After the dissertation, the author
thus continued to
write, but not avidly. In the main, the author has pursued
supportive relatedness BEFORE dissertation completion, thus
reflecting a lower priority in the author's life-time
allocation scheme. From the following table, the author's
quality of life percentage has increased over time, but the
time spent on the dissertation has been inconsistent.
Conclude
Theory W 972
Table 147 - Hours of writing
____________________________________________________________
Verb Noun
1994 week and hours
_________ ____________ ____________________________________
w36 35 34 33 32 31 30 29 28 27 26 25
write dissertation 4
21 22 7 29 26 10 2 1 1
pursue writing(art) 1 5
6 22 8 11 10 8 6 10
measure production 71 67 61 61
67 61 61 61 61 61 62 58%
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Note: From Harv's Theory W case study. See further table
for complete view of author's time.
The author's life-time has rather
been spent on
relatedness matters and a certain better quality of life.
The following presents a vignette of relatedness - not quite
detailed enough to provide a worknet for the partnership
organization.
Table 148 - Suggestions to improving rate of volunteering
____________________________________________________________
Act Verb Descriptor
Noun
____ __________ _____________ ____________
1 make
interesting appeal
2 make
unthreatening appeal
3a state theoretical
importance
3b state practical
importance
4 state altruistic
benefits
5 consider courtesy
gifts
6 have
highstatus requester
7 avoid stressful
research
8 communicate normative
volunteering
9 make
personalized appeal
10 consider volunteer
publicity
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Note: (211 255).
