Sunday, August 24, 2008

On the threshold of a law

Long time! Innovation demands persuasion for adoption and that can prove quite demanding: ".... the incredulity of mankind who does not truly believe in anything new until they actually have experience of it. " - Machiavelli (The Prince, 1513).

My work offers a compelling method for communication. Its free flow of knowledge will create time and energy as well as the means for organizationl learning and team empathy with the barest of disruptions. But that is not enough. I do not have the proof point, i.e., the evidence, to convince wary enterprises that my work delivers free flow and that free flow is the way to success. The big IT players, pre-occupied with their products and strategies, do not wish to participate.

Why is free flow the way to success? Peter Senge and Daniel Goleman have in seminal works established that it emerges the reality and imparts teams the power to get what they want. However, free flow today demands sustained organization and drive, i.e., a culture for sparing quality time and energy to share knowledge. The culture is so rare that the path of truth invokes more cynicism and less belief amongs senior professionals.

It is possible that a proof point of my work will establish free flow as a law for the delivery of success. The belief in truth for the happiness of mankind is as old as religion, be it Christian, Moslem or Hindu. The only missing element to establish the law, on the same plane as the laws of Thermodynamics, is a reliable means to deliver free flow.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Interesting. 'Inexhaustible intelligent energy' implies a force. Any concrete internal force must impact the state of the universe, viz., define itself in relation to entropy. There is therefore a relationship between your breakthrough and Thermodynamics. Have any idea what the Fourth law will look like or have you bitten off more than you can chew?

Waykm said...

Thermodynamics does not concern itself with internal dynamics like Mental energy. It postulates if a lower state of energy is possible it will be reached (Second Law). It even postulates a state of zero energy (Third Law). It accepts that energy may be converted to reach a higher state of energy but the total will remain the same (First Law). There has been talk of a Fourth Law to factor in evolution, namely, that randomly moving particles may unite in direction to advance the decline to a state of lower energy or greater entropy.

The second law has birthed talks of annihilation. However, that can only come to pass if there is no conversion. With Einstein postulating conversion of matter to energy also, it appears quite infeasible.

The dependence of life on energy has led Thermodynamic’s laws to be applied to life. Thus, enterprises always have the potential of failing. Andy Grove’s “only the paranoid survive” may be understood in this context. But this does not prevent enterprises from raising their potential per the First Law. Intelligent Energy, created by harnessing IT, i.e., electrical energy, serves the function of raising the potential of organizations. It thus obeys the laws of Thermodynamic. However, if I succeed in establishing the ‘law of free flow’ then enterprises need no longer be paranoid to survive (:-)).