CONIECTO

During my last German class, we were given a few words and a few pictures as a starting point for writing a story. Actually, they were referring to a short story written by Heinrich Böll: Anecdote for the Decline of the Working Morale. None of us was previously aware of the story.
We worked in groups and produced four different stories. Then we listened to the four different stories, and finally to the original one written by Böll.
It is amazing how different people can think, how they identify themselves with one character or the other and how they project their own ideas, attitudes, ideals on the characters.

I think this method could be very useful in education, but also in organizational environments. Asking people about their own interpretation of a theory they learned about, or their own perspective on an event or situation they lived through, and sharing our owns with others would certainly improve a lot our perspective. I think I read about this somewhere: that multiple subjective opinions could build up a sort of objectivity... But this is basically what we bloggers are doing: sharing our perspective.

Not all the people will become bloggers over night, that's for sure (I'm thinking more and more about blogging as a model for knowledge sharing that could be extended and applied to other tools and maybe environments); but I think that listening to other people's opinions could help organizational learning in general. Another perspective on the problem that's been troubling us for days can be sometimes the key to solving it. People pretend they don't have time to talk to the others; but does keeping themselves busy and crushing into the same old wall help?!

This reflection was triggered by Lilia's post Sharing perspectives, quality and KJ-technique.