From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Mon Aug 15 2005 - 23:00:24 BST
Hi Ant:
Thanks for taking the time and trouble to give us an update on Dr. Harris.
I'm sure others appreciated it, too. And I guess we can also appreciate
the tough job Harris has to convince others of the MOQ's value. I assume
most of us here believe in its value, but even after that hurdle is
overcome, its practical application in the nitty-gritty of the social
level seems almost insurmountable. Surely your doctoral thesis and some of
the conference papers serve to establish a vital base camp in the assault
on that mountain.
Best regards,
Platt
Ant McWatt stated August 11th:
>
> >Ian, I largely agree with your sentiment that politics should emerge
> >bottom-up. This is very much supported in the work of Dr Robert Harris,
> >the MOQ business person concerned largely with how corporations should be
> >run on more co-operative and therefore profitable (as far as money,
> >intellectual development, longevity of a corporation and the environment)
> >lines are concerned.
>
> Platt Holden asked August 13th:
>
> By the way, how's he doing?
>
>
> Ant McWatt replies:
>
> Platt,
>
> Thank you very much for asking.
>
> Dr Harris is still hard at trying to convince CEOs/managing directors to
> implement MOQ principles in American and European corporations and smaller
> companies. Of course that is a lot easier to say than to do but no one is
> expecting that largely capitalist run systems will become more MOQ
> orientated overnight. 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 sharing of intellectual and social resources, longevity of a
> corporation, the internal 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.
>
> The New York based “A Dialogue on Local Approaches to MDGs” (Millennium
> Development Goals are the anti-poverty objectives outlined in the U.N.
> Declaration of 2000) conference devoted to reducing global poverty and
> achieving sustainability at Fordham University (which Robert Harris
> assisted his wife - Nancy - with in mid-June 2005) was a success. It has a
> United Nations website including papers, interesting links etc which are
> definitely worth having a look at the following address:
>
> http://www.undp.org/equatorinitiative/secondary/events/CommunityCommons/Com
> munityCommons.htm
>
> The Harris’s conference at New York was the “preview” for the Millennium
> Review Summit in September 14th–16th where nearly 200 heads of state will
> meet at the United Nations to review progress made toward achieving the
> MDGs (Millennium Development Goals) and to finalize a global development
> agenda for the next 10 years.
>
> Dr Harris has recently expressed his appreciation of the recent MOQ
> Conference papers on the new robertpirsig.org website so maybe he might
> consider allowing one of his own papers to be published there as well. As
> his position is rather unique (he’s even written a paper with the chairman
> of BP!), hopefully I can twist his arm to get something sorted out in the
> near future.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Anthony.
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