Hi Bob, Your comment about classifying organizational and environmental situations brings to mind Stephan Wolfram's four classes of system behavior. This...
Christopher Haydock
haydock@...
Mar 2, 2006 5:40 pm
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This is info about the Chesapeake Bay OD Network's Annual Conference in April. You'll find at least a few familiar names mentioned below, and I think you'll...
Matt Minahan
matt@...
Mar 2, 2006 5:40 pm
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I think you could look seriously at what Appreciative Inquiry has to offer. I assume that this retreat will not be the only work you do with them and that they...
Esther Ewing
EwingChange@...
Mar 2, 2006 5:40 pm
813
Please visit the web site http://www.albany.edu/cpr/gf for: - Resource Files (compiled threads on various topics) - Subscription Options (digest, index,...
... I'm speaking not from experience but from theory. Deming was against motivational posters, speakers, meetings, and the like -- exhortations, he called...
Ned Ruete
nruete@...
Mar 2, 2006 5:40 pm
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Over the years our training practice has grown to include seminars and key notes. A few simple guidelines: a motivational intervention can spark some interest,...
Richard Delaney
delaney@...
Mar 2, 2006 5:40 pm
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I have never used one but I did experience one. Many years ago (many, many years ago) I was attending an intensive 10 week course of instruction on group and...
Lesley, Stu
slesley@...
Mar 2, 2006 5:40 pm
817
Appreciate the history and analysis here, Bill, will be interested to follow this up and ponder the lessons, thanks. ... From: Group Facilitation...
James Neill - Wilderdom
james@...
Mar 2, 2006 5:40 pm
818
An old school friend, who knows I earn my living as a Facilitator, has just contacted me to say his boss (CEO) has asked him to find a motivational speaker for...
Julian Simcox
julian.simcox@...
Mar 2, 2006 5:41 pm
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Dear Ned, Please allow me to ask a basic question: Could you help me with references or links to the work of Deming. I tsounds very interesting to me. Yours ...
Knud Lindholm Lau
lau@...
Mar 2, 2006 5:41 pm
820
Thanks, Chris. Fascinating. I spent an enjoyable half an hour just playing around on the site. I'm familiar with Wolfram's book but wouldn't have thought of ...
Bob Dick
bdick@...
Mar 2, 2006 5:41 pm
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Julian, We have had experience with being asked to find and bring in a motivational speaker for a client meeting. The client hired us to design and facilitate...
JanetDanforth@facilit...
jdanforth@...
Mar 2, 2006 5:41 pm
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I have been working with an organization with strategic planning off and ... Jim, Art or science? Always an worthy debate. I have seen facilitators be true...
deborah@...
Mar 2, 2006 5:41 pm
823
If my memory of Deming and Total Quality Management serves I think that his point was that there were some problems that were system based (the bead experiment...
Lesley, Stu
slesley@...
Mar 2, 2006 5:41 pm
824
Ned I hunted for an account of Deming's experiment on Google but didn't find anything would you expand? Thanks Robin ... From: Ned Ruete I'm speaking not from...
One @ Phoenix
one@...
Mar 2, 2006 5:41 pm
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Jim Wiegel here. Mintzburg has an article where he contrasts strategy making as a "scientific" endeavor -- experts in a room with data (white shirts even) and...
James Wiegel
jfwiegel@...
Mar 2, 2006 5:42 pm
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Hi Chris I followed the links you gave but couldn't find anything on the 4 classes of system behaviour. Could you help? I did some research and found this...
One @ Phoenix
one@...
Mar 2, 2006 5:42 pm
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... Hash: SHA1 ... Ned got the color wrong. Google for red bead experiment. Bill - -- Bill Harris http://facilitatedsystems.com/weblog/ ...
Bill Harris
bill_harris@...
Mar 2, 2006 5:43 pm
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Hello Jim and others I share Mintzberg's scepticism about strategic planning as usually done. In many organisations it becomes an annual three-day ritual, ...
Bob Dick
bdick@...
Mar 2, 2006 5:43 pm
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Personally I enjoy a great speaker and occasionally learned something from a speaker. However I am suspicious of "motivational speakers". If you can find...
Robert Sullens
wwsully@...
Mar 2, 2006 5:43 pm
830
Hello Bob and others, i appreciate your thoughts re "shared vision/safe next steps", the metaphor, and the references... as you mentioned, in an environment...
Rosa Zubizarreta
rosalegria@...
Mar 2, 2006 5:43 pm
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Deming's experiment is called the Red Bead Game because he used white and red marbles in the activity. Try googling deming red bead game. The experiment...
Bosscher, Michael (Mi...
mbossche@...
Mar 5, 2006 2:06 pm
832
Robert, As always you have a way of taking a unique view on things.. First let me say that I think understanding human psychology is a critical piece of...
Mitch Owen
Mitch_Owen@...
Mar 5, 2006 2:06 pm
833
... Sorry, it's me, not you. I wasn't offended in the least. I apologize for the language and tone -- sometimes I forget I'm not writing my next book (or...
Robert Bacal
ceo@...
Mar 5, 2006 2:06 pm
834
Taking a different track, I have found that the most inspirational speakers are participants when they find a new "voice" - when they have the courage to say...
John Powderly
johnp@...
Mar 5, 2006 2:06 pm
835
... OK, I can buy that position. And without spending a whole lot of time discussing what constitutes success for a set of ideas, I'm not sure where we can...
Robert Bacal
ceo@...
Mar 5, 2006 2:06 pm
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Just thought I'd weigh in on this, since I've done a few, (very few), attended a few, etc. Obviously the benefits/harm depends on the up front work done by...
Robert Bacal
ceo@...
Mar 5, 2006 2:06 pm
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... Ned, just so people don't misunderstand what you wrote, The "experiment" you talked about was a teaching tool to demonstrate a particular set of...
Robert Bacal
ceo@...
Mar 5, 2006 2:06 pm
838
... Speakers are standard fare for charity fund raisers. Venue including lunch runs $15-35 per person with ticket prices $25-100. Sell 300 seats at $50 each...
Margaret Runchey
cs3@...
Mar 5, 2006 2:06 pm
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WOW!!! It looks like I somehow offended you, Robert. I appreciate your viewpoint and I'm not quite sure how to reply to it. Giorgio Piccagli ... From: Robert...
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