From: ian glendinning (psybertron@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Aug 17 2005 - 06:26:29 BST
Sorry Ant,
I'm still a little baffled, by how little I can find about this guy
and how much store both you and Platt seem to place in him. (I'm in
the same business area, and BP has been a customer of mine over many
years.)
Your summary above says ...
"Managers expect tangible financial results as quickly as possible
rather than long term Quality results which cover a multitude of
corporate issues on top of bottom line profits (such as the wider and
external environment). However, as Harris has emphasised in his
papers, a company once it has become a team of people genuinely
believing and working together towards a common Quality aim become
nearly unstoppable in their field."
For me that summary is exactly the thing all the management and TQM
Gurus were saying through the 70's and 80's. (ie forget the numbers
and arithmetic, look at the people and the culture - Excellence was
the buzzword for quality.) Very much the core subject and motivation
in my conference paper, and my interest in MoQ in the first place,
you'll recognise. A reaction to "management science".
I can't find Harris referenced at all in the second link you provided,
and in his BP "Eco" paper he doesn't even mention quality or anything
like it that I can see.
(The Paradigm Research International that he founded seems to move in
corporate security & politics circles.) Despite your reference to the
UN / Eco-Politics stuff, I can't see any evidence of his involvement
their either.
Intriguing.
I take it his "papers" are all hard-copy academic library stuff ?
I make take up your offer.
Ian
On 8/16/05, Ant McWatt <antmcwatt@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> Ian Glendinning (psybertron@gmail.com) asked August 16th 2005:
>
> Hi Ant,
>
> Could you give me some reference to Dr Harris (can't find him at Fordham)?
> As you know MOQ in business is my bag.
>
> Ian
>
>
> Ant McWatt comments:
>
> Ian,
>
> Sorry there isn't much on the internet about Dr Harris. However, his paper
> "BP and Climate Change" can be found at:
>
> http://www.indigodev.com/BPclim.html#busimod
>
> And, he is also quoted in the following article about handheld computers:
>
> http://campus-technology.com/campusmobility/article.asp?id=6896
>
>
> If you write an e-letter for Harris, I will forward it on to him for you.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Anthony
>
>
> www.robertpirsig.org
>
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