Michael Allen's 2009 e-Learning Annual

11.3. DON'T CALL THEM TRAINEES

"Western cultural views of how best to organize and lead (now the methods most used in the world) are contrary to what life teaches. Leaders use control and imposition rather than participative, self-organizing processes. They react to uncertainty and chaos by tightening already feeble controls rather than engaging people's best capacities to learn and adapt."

'Margaret Wheatley (2005)

Hans Monderman is a Dutch traffic engineer who is gaining fame for what he doesn't do. He's also famous for what he doesn't like: traffic signs. His reasoning is that over-engineering drains things of context, civic responsibility fades, reckless driving ensues, and people get hurt.

Monderman was asked to design a village's bike ...