Comments on: walls http://www.ergoconsulting.com.au/walls/ building better businesses Sat, 14 Jan 2012 02:29:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: col http://www.ergoconsulting.com.au/walls/comment-page-1/#comment-152 col Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:30:59 +0000 http://www.ergoconsulting.com.au/?p=264#comment-152 Ralf, thanks too for your reflections. We ended up here a day late after our flight out of Melbourne was cancelled and we had the joy of a couple of nights on the airline in hotels in cities that were never part of the plan. Today has included a wander down Karl Marx Avenue, scene of the military parades. Strange feelings. This city has a lot to like about it. The eclectic cafe culture makes a Melbourne-ite like me feel right at home. Next time I am here I look forward to having you show me your corner of this fascinating country. Ralf, thanks too for your reflections. We ended up here a day late after our flight out of Melbourne was cancelled and we had the joy of a couple of nights on the airline in hotels in cities that were never part of the plan. Today has included a wander down Karl Marx Avenue, scene of the military parades. Strange feelings. This city has a lot to like about it. The eclectic cafe culture makes a Melbourne-ite like me feel right at home. Next time I am here I look forward to having you show me your corner of this fascinating country.

]]> By: Ralf Lippold http://www.ergoconsulting.com.au/walls/comment-page-1/#comment-150 Ralf Lippold Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:34:54 +0000 http://www.ergoconsulting.com.au/?p=264#comment-150 Hi Col, great post:-) Thanks for the insight as an "outsider" and being in contact with people from Eastern Germany for almost 18 years now I have to say, there are still walls (even higher and more secured) between East and West Germany. The walls mainly exist in the walls and people in the West never been in contact with relatives or friends in the East during the "old" times and now not willing to leave their mental models of the past behind make it even more diffiicult to actually see them and start to tear them down. Berlin is a good starting point and yet most people separate by themselves in either the Western or Eastern suburbs with their peers. The seeds of connecting and sharing stories is evolving slowly and even more strenuous out in the Eastern countryside or cities people are not very fond of travelling to such as Chemnitz, Zwickau, Schwedt, etc.. Nevertheless it needs connectors and boundary-spanners like you (and perhaps me as well) who get the stories on how the world can live together told across the globe. As we have both seen in Muscat, Oman, during the 3rd SoL Global Forum it is possible -even on a broader scale:-)) Cheers, Ralf Hi Col,

great post:-) Thanks for the insight as an “outsider” and being in contact with people from Eastern Germany for almost 18 years now I have to say, there are still walls (even higher and more secured) between East and West Germany.

The walls mainly exist in the walls and people in the West never been in contact with relatives or friends in the East during the “old” times and now not willing to leave their mental models of the past behind make it even more diffiicult to actually see them and start to tear them down.

Berlin is a good starting point and yet most people separate by themselves in either the Western or Eastern suburbs with their peers. The seeds of connecting and sharing stories is evolving slowly and even more strenuous out in the Eastern countryside or cities people are not very fond of travelling to such as Chemnitz, Zwickau, Schwedt, etc..

Nevertheless it needs connectors and boundary-spanners like you (and perhaps me as well) who get the stories on how the world can live together told across the globe.

As we have both seen in Muscat, Oman, during the 3rd SoL Global Forum it is possible -even on a broader scale:-))

Cheers,

Ralf

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