Readings -- Minna Takala -- June 3, 2003, 11:30 a.m.

Symposium: "A New Base for Corporate Relations: From Strategic Deceit to Trustworthy Action", Nokia House, Espoo Finland, Tuesday, June 3, 2003.

This digest was created in real-time during the meeting, based on the speaker's presentation(s) and comments from the audience. These should not be viewed as official transcripts of the meeting, but only as an interpretation by a single individual. Lapses, grammatical errors, and typing mistakes may not have been corrected. Questions about content should be directed to the originator. These notes have been contributed by David Ing (daviding@systemicbusiness.org) at the IBM Advanced Business Institute ( http://www.ibm.com/abi ).

[Minna Takala on documents]

Emery and Trist, 1965

• People ask for more recent, but this is foundational

Minna wrote a short outline for this Emery and Trist article, to place this in the context of organizations.

Allegory for the cave

• From the demystification of science class
• Matrix Reloaded is based on the allegory of the cave

[David Hawk]

Wanted to interview a Finnish company, since their new mother is going to be American.

• The #2 person there sent an e-mail last night.