Seattle, Washington Tuesday wrapped wup with a great high energy keynote from Van Jones, director of the Ella Baker Center in Oakland, California.. This harvest was co-written by Nancy White, Teresa Posakony and Chris Corrigan Van was nervous prior to his talk – some “jackass” came up and tapped him on his shoulder and interrupted his contemplation. “Don’t mess with me! I”m a spiritual agent.” I turned around and it was Peter Senge trying to wish me some good luck. We face the challenge of helping people to rise to the occasion of their lives. You get better, stronger, clearer, …
Seattle, Washington. This morning’s keynote was a four person panel presentation from the team that created the Boeing Operations Centre, which is the primary face of Boeing’s interaction with their customers, helping them with maintenance and servicing issues. The presentation was given by Peter Weertman, Bruce Rund, Bob Wiebe and Darren Macer. This post is a collaborative harvest of that keynote by myself, Tenneson Woolf and Teresa Posakony. One thing to notice about people that work at Boeing is that they almost always talk about their relationship to planes dating back to being kids, they take great pride in their …
Otto Scharmer’s keynote was yesterday evening and here is our harvest of that… Otto began by talking about The Blind Spot of Leadership…missing the deeper way we human beings relate to one another in the social field. What is missed here is the deeper dimension that is always there but usually not attended to. Why can’t we see this blind spot, that is the source of all of our doing? What can we do about being blind to this source? We are blind to this because we focus on results and process, and not the sources of these two things. …
Seattle, Washington Here at the Systems Thinking in Action conference doing a variety of things, including playing with my friends Teresa POsakony, Tenneson Woolf, Peggy Holman, Gabriel Shirley, Nancy White, Amy Lenzo and Anne Stadler. We are together co-hosting a conversation space here at the conference which is a place for amplifying the questions and insights that re flowing from the plenary and breakout sessions. This morning, Teresa, Tenneson, Gabriel and I practiced a new form of keynote harvesting. Debra Meyerson, author of “Tempered Radicals” was speaking on her work and we passed around a laptop and recorded …
Photo by Jeremy I was out surfing this week… Integral strategies – a site in evolution Why I Never Hire Brilliant Men: “Does he finish what he starts? Geniuses almost never do.” Ouch. The new basis of power suits? Shirts that generate electricity. Chaos and fractals – a collection of links Walkabout as pedagogy – Aboriginal unschooling Peer to peer governance RSS feeds explained (thanks Viv) Also from Viv…Pangea Day, a day for viewing the world through it’s own eyes. Richard Oliver on Kairos and Kronos pointe to this article on the same (and his lovely manifesto on Purposive Drift) …