Re: Europe as a System

[Al Viswanathan <alv1@gte.net>]

Jean-Marie Gogue wrote:
> 
> A system may have several aims, and corporations actually have several aims
> concerning finances, market, etc. Deming made no objection. But the
> system's aims must fit together. A system which has opposite aims is on the
> road to ruine.

Unless the several aims and associated values do not "fit together" (or
aligned), would it not result in conflicting interactions within the
system as well as with the contextual system (supra-system as Ed Baker
used to call it) making it difficult if not impossible to manage the system?

Al Viswanathan
alv1@gte.net