If I Wanted America To Fail: Positioning Humanity’s Future

Posted on 28. Apr, 2012 by in * Organizational Learning

Notice! : I recently received negative feedback on this article. People are particially reading it, then watching the video, and assuming that I am advocating for right wing politics, which is not at all the point of my article. So, as you read, watch for the fears as they arise in your mind. Read with a discerning more »

Using Fractal Mapping To Build Organizational Inductive Performance

Posted on 01. Apr, 2012 by in * Collaborative Design, * Leadership Ecology, * Organizational Learning, * Sustainable Innovation

The below map sketches out an applicable model for deepening the capacity, value, and intelligence of an organization’s performance. It’s impact suggests that non-productivity, or inductive activities are aspects of a company’s behavior that should be nurtured rather than exterminated. Similar to the model for energy, which has both electric and magnetic characteristics, so too more »

Lossy vs Efficient Organizations – How to Design a Sustainable Supply Chain Management System

Posted on 31. Mar, 2012 by in * Collaborative Design, * Organizational Learning, * Sustainable Innovation

my recent insight on scm design … DRAFT (under construction) lossy vs efficient organizations – how to design a ‘sustainable’ supply chain management (scm) system sustainability in supply chain management is optimized by measuring the lossiness cause by reflective coefficients at the sources and sinks of each learning node (suppler/vendor) in the chain. This refers more »

Moving from Thinking to Action – The Fears and Myths that Bind Us (part 1)

Posted on 24. Jan, 2012 by in * Organizational Learning, * Social Mythology

Transformation or Collapse? Many of us sense that humanity is a a place of act now or die – no exaggeration. Yet, not much change seems to be happening, especially in human behavior. There seems to be incredible unconscious fears about acting on ideas, and even more about the future that is ours … Just more »

Concentrix Management: How To Cross Pollinate Innovation Teams

Posted on 01. Dec, 2011 by in * Collaborative Design, * Organizational Learning

Concentrix Management (CM) is a model for distributing and managing information with the intent to cross pollinate ideas and concepts across sub-groups so that each part of the system knows about the ‘whole’ (of which all working groups within it reside) without overloading any one person. ——————————————————————————————- We are each at the centers of our more »

Schools Should Teach The Way Children Learn

Posted on 16. Sep, 2010 by in * Organizational Learning

I love this article from the S.F. Chronicle. It will make you rethink your beliefs around technology’s role in teaching and how we humans tend to learn. Read up. (Click on the article image to enlarge it) Use your mouse to click, hold, drag, zoom, autoplay, and control the presentation below. Playing to Learn? on more »

A Practical Theory On Leadership & Collaboration – ‘The Shirtless Dancing Guy’

Posted on 28. May, 2010 by in * Collaborative Design, * Leadership Ecology, * Organizational Learning

I got this video off of Charles Lemos’ site and was referred to it by Ben Roberts’ Facebook conversation. Derek Sivers gave this presentation at the TED Conference this week and got a standing ovation. It’s pretty brilliant in its takeaway. The video below is a healthy perspective on the collective’s role in leadership, especially more »

The Empathic Civilization

Posted on 25. May, 2010 by in * Organizational Learning

Is it possible for us to manifest a better world? One filled with more peace, well being, and harmony? Yes, I believe we can. We just have to remind each other – often. Watch this amazing video below. The Empathic Civilisation, by Jeremy Rifkin

Creating a Learning Exchange Marketplace

Posted on 04. Jan, 2010 by in * Collaborative Design, * Organizational Learning

Learning Exchange Markets uncover hidden innovation which is often at the fringes of an organization. Within a Learning Exchange Market, a shift of emphasis occurs between the participants from debates and discussions to generative dialogue, which must be in place for true forms of sustainable innovation to emerge. During the learning exchange process, multiple conversations more »

Online Workshops – Client Needs Survey

Posted on 09. Dec, 2009 by in * Organizational Learning

Client Needs Survey

Growth Myth: How Sustainability is Linked to Poor Economic Design

Posted on 25. Oct, 2009 by in * Organizational Learning, * Social Mythology, * Sustainable Innovation

The future of HUMAN sustainability is directly linked to the models that we have created to manage our social systems. And our inability to connect with exponential growth concepts is about to take the whole thing down in flames. I highly encourage you to watch Chris Martenson‘s ‘Crash Course‘, which covers a slightly different set more »

Innovation is a misrepresented characterization of humanity's creative process.

Posted on 11. Sep, 2009 by in * Organizational Learning, * Sustainable Innovation

Innovation is a misrepresented characterization of humanity’s creative process. It is too often used to describe the entire process of manifestation. Actually, INNOVATION is sandwiched between INSPIRATION and INVENTION. This more (w)holistically describes a full creative cycle. More . . .

"Be The Change!" – 7 Steps To Manifestation

Posted on 01. Aug, 2009 by in * Leadership Ecology, * Organizational Learning, **

“Be the change you want to see in the world.” Join “Be The Change!” Twibes Twitter Group /// Participate in the “Be The Change!” Dialogue Project Join One Of Our Discovery Communities At The Bottom Of This Page Mohandas Gandhi’s quote above is powerful, isn’t it? Being the change requires that we embody change itself. more »

Building A Learning Organisation

Posted on 27. May, 2009 by in * Leadership Ecology, * Organizational Learning

A learning organisation is an organisation that learns and encourages learning among its people. It promotes exchange of information between employees, hence creating a more knowledgeable workforce. This produces a very flexible organisation where people will accept and adapt to new ideas and change through shared vision.It is said that the only constant in life more »

Collective Intelligence and Collective Wisdom

Posted on 26. May, 2009 by in * Collaborative Design, * Leadership Ecology, * Organizational Learning

“Change” has been the big topic of conversation for some time now. For the most part, the change that everyone writes about and talks about is economic change. There has been much written about the change from a manufacturing economy to a service economy and there has been much written about the movement of manufacturing more »

Online Learning To Reshape Our World ?

Posted on 27. Feb, 2009 by in * Collaborative Design, * Organizational Learning

I’ve been behind the mark in getting some good material out relating to online collaboration tools because I’m actually formulating new potions back in my personal ‘Colab’oratory. I am continuing my search for KISS (keep it stupid simple) online environments that will allow us all to connect online in amazing ways – no matter where more »

Videos To Fuel Discovery, Collaboration, & Change

Posted on 24. Apr, 2008 by in * Organizational Learning

Not Your Basic Ethics – Values Development Training

Posted on 19. Jan, 2007 by in * Collaborative Design, * Leadership Ecology, * Organizational Learning

Ethics? Values? Who cares!? “YOU” better care. Did you know that each person’s underlying values and beliefs systems are what drives their actions? Those actions are how things get done by your team members. By linking individual values with your company’s principles, practices, and policies, your world becomes a happier place, with more sustained commitments more »

Organizational Geometries: Emergent Design

Posted on 16. Jan, 2001 by in * Organizational Learning, **

NOTES: the chemical periodic table and its relationship to organizational configuration and development energetic flux is generated by geometric configuration which then results in form & function … Economical, Equitable Leadership. Organizational Geometries. Vibrational Organization. … (physical) [ PROCESS … (coming in the future). Organizational Geometries: the chemical periodic table and its relationship to organizational more »