[MD] Awareness of Quality

[MarshaV]

Hi Platt,

This is great.  

Didn't  you also publish a document on Quality?  


Marsha




On Jan 17, 2010, at 7:53 AM, plattholden at gmail.com wrote:

> Hey Mark,
> 
> Times when Quality thinking is likely to occur -- a list to build on. 
> 
> You know you're in MoQ-Land:
> 
> When you go fishing.
> When you cringe at jargon.
> When you visit an art gallery. 
> When you say, "'That's class." 
> When you read a story to a child. 
> When you go with your gut instinct. 
> When you have a feeling of coming home. 
> When you look for underlying assumptions. 
> When you hear a jazz performer improvise. 
> When you deliberately seek a break from routine. 
> When your attitude is "There must be a better way." 
> When you talk more about patterns than about things. 
> When you consider doing nothing to be a viable option. 
> When you ponder the difference between a jelly glass and fine crystal. 
> When you see a butterfly and think, "There's a nice biological value pattern." 
> When you identify a commentator who calls something "outrageous" as an 
> armchair moralist.
> When you realize that another person is running the same "Me" program as you 
> are which doesn't belong to either of you.
> 
> Best,
> Platt
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 16 Jan 2010 at 20:08, markhsmit wrote:
> 
>> Hi Andre,
>> Thanks for your response.  Quality as the driving force sounds good.
>> Sounds like a reasonable way to explain it.  So, how does one switch
>> from SOM to Quality thinking?  What does one practice?
>> 
>> What you describe is either living in the moment, ie. making
>> decisions not based on some desire for something a little
>> farther out in time, but just for the minute or the NOW as is
>> popular to say these days), or, that our decisions
>> are not our own to make, that is Quality makes them.  I'm fine
>> with either explanation.  If I am wrong, please let me know.
>> 
>> Say I were to go out to spread the word about Quality.  What kind
>> of flyer would I provide as a brief description?  Don't worry, this
>> is not my plan.
>> 
>> Thanks again,
>> Mark
>> 
>> On Jan 16, 2010, at 7:14:46 PM, "Andre Broersen" <andrebroersen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> From:   "Andre Broersen" <andrebroersen at gmail.com>
>> Subject:    Re: [MD] Awareness of Quality
>> Date:   January 16, 2010 7:14:46 PM PST
>> To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
>> Andre to Mark(who is searching for awareness of Quality)
>> 
>> Why do you get out of bed in the morning?
>> 
>> Mark to Andre
>> OK, that sounds good. ?Now how do you explain that to a new person?
>> That is what I am asking for.
>> 
>> Andre:
>> OK, because getting out of bed is BETTER than staying in, i.e. it has
>> more Quality. You also respond to Quality when you stay in, in which
>> case staying in bed is BETTER than getting out, i.e it has more
>> Quality.
>> 
>> SOM would have this arse-about. It would say, I am getting out of bed
>> because, for example, I want to have a good breakfast (because it
>> places the quality IN the breakfast).
>> 
>> But please note that SOM uses quality in a different way to the way
>> the MoQ refers to Quality.
>> 
>> The MoQ would say that simply having the breakfast in the first place
>> (i.e. in your house) is a response to Quality... having a house is a
>> response to Quality etc. etc etc. Turtles all the way down the Quality
>> paths.
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Andre
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