X : Do you think McKinsey will change?
Me : Nope.
X : No major play on ethical business?
Me : Ah, we're talking cross purposes here. You probably think that McKinsey regrets all this "negative" press of "an intellectual elite" doing evil things but I suspect it relishes it ...
Me : ... what matters to McKinsey is the status and appearance of an "intellectual elite". They can do the Road to Damascus play and the "intellectual elite now does good" later. What would concern them is if people started to realise that they are a privileged mediocre ...
Me : ... so it's far better to play the images as "an intellectual elite does evil".
X : Have you worked with McKinsey?
Me : Ex-McKinsey ... yes. I'm always amazed by how their belief in their own ability far outweighs any faint whiff of actual talent.
Me : But then that's part of what I'm trying to do with mapping ... to expose this over time
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I can understand deplatforming people for racist, homophobic, antisemitic, islamaphobic or misogynistic views but ... deplatforming because they are critical of your policies? How on earth do they hope to learn without challenge? ->
When I helped write the "Better for Less" paper with others (it was for Francis Maude) ... the concept of challenge was critical. It's at the heart of spend control and the heart of mapping. The problems we saw, the over dependence on external consultancies / vendors was ...
... because of a lack of challenge. This lack of challenge cost Government billions. In one example, well ...
"wage war against socialism" ... if only the same zeal was spent on fighting the Conservatives. Alas, as he makes clear, it's about ideology - "wouldn't want Labour to win on a left-wing platform even if I thought it was the route to victory” - independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
X : What is socialism?
Me : It's a system of social organization which promotes that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as represented by a democratically elected Government ...
... it's the opposite of laissez faire where the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned and regulated by the market.
X : Did you leave the Labour party?
Me : Yes, I don't agree with the rule changes to leadership elections.
X : You won't be voting for them?
Me : Of course I will. I prefer Labour to alternatives. I still support my CLP. I just won't fund the party HQ, I don't agree with it ...
... so I'm a Labour voter, I'm just not an active supporter.
X : What about the Greens?
Me : I agree with many of their policies, the deal breaker for me is their anti-nuclear stance.
X : LibDems?
Me : I doubt I'll trust that party in my lifetime.
X : Conservatives?
Me : I'm old Labour, so I quite like One Nation Tories. I've worked on stuff in Gov with them. However, the One Nation were expunged from the party by this current lot who quite frankly are extreme market fanatics combined with a lack of integrity. Zero trust.
X : Why are you looking at building a Wardley Mapping foundation?
Me : Hmmm. Ok, to explain this I need to use the map of mapping.
Competition is the act of "seeking together" i.e. groups seeking knowledge, resource or something. There are many forms of competition i.e. conflict (fighting together), cooperation (working together), collaboration (labouring together) ...
Hence on a single map, there maybe areas where I conflict with others and collaborate with others ...
X : Are there more stages of evolution on a map?
Me : Not that I found. It took six months of solid work, over 9k publications collect to find the four. This is what went into the cheat sheet. Why?
X : I think there are more.
Me : There might be.
X : What do you think to ...
Me : ... what do I think to? You're not going to just tell me you've named five? Can I repeat the bit about spending six months, working day and night, to build a case for four? Do you have any idea how much effort went into finding these labels?
Me : The collection of publications, the failed experiments with diffusion curves and other models, the frequency analysis of weak signals, the building of the graph between ubiquity and certainty?
X : Touchy?
X : What's the most important thing to do with mapping.
Me : Practice i.e. practice putting your assumptions down, sharing with others and listening to challenge.
X : There must be some theory on how to ...
Me : Theory? Maps is all practice, observation and patterns ...
Me : ... it was born from practice, observation and patterns and it still remains as such today. We're a long long way from a theory of maps.
X : Some maps look quite theoretical.
Me : "theoretical" in the sense that "this map is being used to show a pattern I don't like and hence I'm not going to listen nor accept the challenge but instead dismiss this observation based upon my belief" ... you need to practice more.