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SUBJECTS
New Knowledge Management Distinguished from Old Knowledge Management
Natural Knowledge Management Empowers People Systems Distinguished f
Nuclear Knowledge Management Dedicated to Solving Problems in Nuclea
Presencing Book Oxford Student Asks about Correlation Application SD
Precision Access with Explicit Links to Context Expedite Understandi
Continual Learning to Think Changes Education Paradigm
Presencing: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future, Peter Senge,

2509 -
2509 -    ..
2510 - Summary/Objective
2511 -
251101 - Follow up ref SDS 38 0000, ref SDS 25 0000.
251102 -
251103 - Inquiry today about how SDS "fits with Presencing and NKM indicates
251104 - movement in the leadership and social psychology branch of knowledge
251105 - management.  There is minimal fit with SDS, however, Presencing might
251106 - facilitate transformation. ref SDS 0 MX5I  Efforts trying to expand
251107 - the work of Institutional Research (IR) fits the model of a new work
251108 - role using SDS for "intelligence" support. ref SDS 0 J97O  "Learning
251109 - Histories" may relate to SDS support for personal and organizational
251110 - memory that enables continual learning. ref SDS 0 GB4N
251112 -  ..
251113 - Submitted ref DIT 1 0001 linked to this record demonstrating SDS work
251114 - product.
251115 -
251116 -        [On 050325 Andrew applied these procedures to construct
251117 -        connections in communications. ref SDS 39 WG9H
251118 -
251119 -
251120 -
251121 -
251123 -  ..
2512 -
2513 -
2514 - Progress
2515 -
251501 - Presencing and NKM Inquiry Needs Links for Precision Access to Context
251502 -
251503 - Received ref DRT 1 0001 a letter dated 050320 saying...
251504 -
251505 -    1.  My ...interest is organizational learning and NKM in the
251506 -        broadest sense. ref DRT 1 0001
251508 -         ..
251509 -    2.  I have been digesting the book by Senge, Scharmer, Flowers and
251510 -        Jaworski called PRESENCING. ref DRT 1 WL5M
251512 -         ..
251513 -    3.  Working from the assumption you have read this book, and are
251514 -        maybe familiar with surrounding ideas, may i inquire in what
251515 -        ways your work, as published on the 'web'  ...fits? ref DRT 1
251516 -        PL6H
251517 -
251518 -          [...below presencing is reviewed. ref SDS 0 MX5I
251520 -           ..
251521 -          [On 050517 request for support of doctorial thesis on
251522 -          cognitive overhead. ref SDS 45 II5N
251524 -  ..
251525 - Questions arise from Andrew's letter...
251526 -
251527 -     1.  Purpose of inquiry, e.g., for a school paper, research
251528 -         exercise, published article, improve learning skills, improve
251529 -         management and leadership?
251531 -         ..
251532 -     2. "NKM" might refer to new, networked, nuclear, natural, nice,
251533 -        and other forms of KM.  Acronyms should be spelled out, and
251534 -        explained wth a link to authority, illustrated by...
251535 -
251536 -             [On 050405 update POIMS showing correlation between NKM
251537 -             and MPM. ref SDS 42 GL6H
251539 -         ..
251540 -        a. Old KM fosters learning
251541 -           and knowledge sharing
251542 -           Mark McElroy....................... 030920, ref OF 21 PPWY
251544 -            ..
251545 -        b. New KM transcends strategy
251546 -           and management empowering
251547 -           people to solve problems........... 030920, ref OF 21 PPXU
251549 -            ..
251550 -        c. New KM implements Popper's
251551 -           fallibilism and falsificationism
251552 -           that moves closer to truth
251553 -           in Open Enterprise................. 050322, ref OF 25 HD5J
251555 -            ..
251556 -        d. Natural KM human centered
251557 -           non-technical solutions
251558 -           artificial KM provide
251559 -           technical solutions................ 031201, ref OF 19 G84J
251561 -            ..
251562 -        e. Nuclear Knowledge Management....
251563 -
251564 -               http://www.iaea.org/km/pages/policydocuments.html
251566 -            ..
251567 -        f. North Korean Mission is another version of
251568 -           NKM....
251569 -
251570 -               http://www.nkmissions.com/index.php
251572 -         ..
251573 -     3. Links showing the context of questions make communication
251574 -        effective and productive, reviewed recently on 050113.
251575 -        ref SDS 37 5X4S  What did the writer see and think that
251576 -        prompted a letter?  There are about 10,000 SDS records on the
251577 -        Internet.  Citing particular SDS work product with a short
251578 -        narrative on correlations and alignment with sources and ideas,
251579 -        here Presencing, helps expedite response to inquiry.
251581 -             ..
251582 -        a.  Procedures for using explicit links to provide context are
251583 -            listed in POIMS. ref OF 6 6J6L
251584 -
251585 -               [On 050325 Andrew applied these procedures to construct
251586 -               connections in communications. ref SDS 39 WG9H
251587 -
251588 -               [On 050330 inquiry on linking SDS records to sources on
251589 -               Cognitive Therapy, and to Covey's ideas on management,
251590 -               needs links for context. ref SDS 41 RQ34
251592 -                ..
251593 -               [On 050421 inquiry on knee treatments at Kaiser needs
251594 -               links for context. ref SDS 43 I14N
251596 -                ..
251597 -               [On 060712 Kathy figured out to use explicit links to
251598 -               request support for 2nd opinion treating lung cancer
251599 -               patient. ref SDS 46 VQ6N
251601 -             ..
251602 -        b.  Rationale for investing 10 seconds on explicit links to
251603 -            work intelligently is further set out in POIMS. ref OF 6
251604 -            186F  In sum, people save lives, time, and money by
251605 -            reducing mistakes otherwise induced by advancing complexity
251606 -            driven by technology that compresses time and distance,
251607 -            explained in NWO. ref OF 10 02CV
251609 -             ..
251610 -        c.  On 020905 Stuart Harrow with DCMA demonstrated that in 2
251611 -            minutes people can learn to retool skills for working
251612 -            intelligently by creating a record that "connects the dots"
251613 -            showing context and causation. ref SDS 26 0001  More
251614 -            recently, on 050221 an inquiry similar to Andrew's today
251615 -            provided explicit links showing people can apply
251616 -            "intelligence" on the Internet with minimal instruction.
251617 -            ref SDS 38 0001
251618 -
251619 -               [On 060712 Kathy figured out to use explicit links to
251620 -               request support for 2nd opinion treating lung cancer
251621 -               patient. ref SDS 46 VQ6N
251622 -
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Fit SDS with Presencing Theory, Practice, Roles and Results
SDS Deliverables Organizational Memory Knowledge Intelligence Scalab

2804 -
280501 -  ..
280502 - Presencing Correlation with SDS Theory, Practice, Roles and Results
280503 -
280504 - Follow up ref SDS 36 F75Y.
280505 -
280506 - Analysis of eight (8) factors shows minimal "fit" in the details of
280507 - SDS and Presencing.  SDS augments human intelligence to support
280508 - leadership with deliverables like this record, case studies, lessons
280509 - learned, cost savings, planning, and decision support. (see NWO for
280510 - scope, ref OF 12 LW5I)  Presencing seems like a branch of Knowledge
280511 - Management for leadership using social relationships and "sensing"
280512 - future possibilities through spirituality, meditation and pondering.
280513 - ref SDS 0 XL30
280515 -            ..
280516 -           [On 050325 John Maloney reports that Presencing is the
280517 -           foundation for growth of the KM Cluster the past 10 years.
280518 -           ref SDS 40 MP6M
280520 -  ..
280521 - Conceivably SDS and Presencing have complementary tasks...
280523 -          ..
280524 -         Leadership with a Broader Vision through Study and Analysis
280525 -
280526 -     1.  Presencing tasks entail leadership for change management using
280527 -         reflection, ref SDS 0 XL30, and meditation, ref SDS 0 IY5M,
280528 -         which may be forms of study and analysis called out by Drucker
280529 -         as a primary management responsibility, reviewed on 931130.
280530 -         ref SDS 6 7911
280532 -          ..
280533 -         SDS software aids leadership with changes to the practice of
280534 -         management and communication that improve listening, study and
280535 -         analysis.  Writing with wordprocessing constructs "stories" in
280536 -         letters, reports, books, articles, and email that convert data
280537 -         into information.  Eight (8) steps using SDS for Communication
280538 -         Metrics listed in POIMS, ref OF 6 685K, add an "intelligence"
280539 -         process to "connect the dots" that convert information into
280540 -         knowledge. ref OF 6 6649  Adding structure for time and
280541 -         context to information is a fundamental change in underlying
280542 -         alphabet technology, called "literacy," ref OF 3 ER3G, that
280543 -         makes routine "intelligence support" practical at a personal
280544 -         and organizational level, as set out in NWO. ref OF 12 PX6J
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SDS Deliverables Organizational Memory Knowledge Intelligence Scalab
Scalable Knowledge Leverages Individual Time Talent Tasks Synergy Co
SDS Deliverables Organizational Memory Knowledge Intelligence Scalab
Scalable Knowledge Leverages Individual Time Talent Tasks Synergy Co

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320701 -          ..
320702 -         Deliverables Better Memory, Knowledge, Intelligence
320703 -         Scalable Knowledge Leverages Individual Time Talent Tasks
320704 -
320705 -     2.  Presencing may involve "organizational learning," ref SDS 0
320706 -         XL30  Some authorities discuss "learning histories,"
320707 -         ref OF 23 DS64, and, also, call for tools and methods that
320708 -         provide "organizational memory." ref OF 23 DT56
320710 -          ..
320711 -         SDS supports personal and organizational integrated memory and
320712 -         management (POIMS) to routinely capture the story of daily
320713 -         work, as shown in this record. ref OF 3 01TU  Accurate memory
320714 -         with precision access to save time, avoid mistakes and
320715 -         discover complex connections are core SDS deliverables, see
320716 -         again POIMS. ref OF 6 KH8J  Traditional management practice
320717 -         preparing contemporaneous documentation is strengthened by
320718 -         support for context, alignment, summary and feedback that
320719 -         convert information into knowledge, explained in POIMS.
320720 -         ref OF 3 0367  SDS adds "listening" to biological hearing, and
320721 -         adds experience to observing that together yield better
320722 -         understanding of correlations, implications and nuance,
320723 -         essential for better creativity, productivity, and earnings.
320724 -         Many good things flow from using good management to "work
320725 -         intelligently." called out in POIMS. ref OF 3 1X6G
320727 -          ..
320728 -         SDS records transform the Internet (and secure intranets) into
320729 -         an efficient "paperless office" platform, under planning on
320730 -         971021, ref SDS 12 X66O, to facilitate thinking, learning, and
320731 -         communicating. see POIMS. ref OF 7 3742  Scalable knowledge
320732 -         that constructs personal and organizational memory by adding
320733 -         intelligence to information from sensory perception, explained
320734 -         in POIMS, ref OF 3 0561, facilitates collaboration and
320735 -         organizational learning proposed by Senge, reviewed on 930216,
320736 -         ref SDS 4 8998, as well by the Tofflers on 950911. ref SDS 8
320737 -         2222  Doug Engelbart also calls for an ABC system of continual
320738 -         improvement, reviewed on 991222. ref SDS 20 C742  Scalable
320739 -         knowledge was demonstrated at SRI on 010517. ref SDS 23 4Q5I
320741 -          ..
320742 -         Case studies for root cause analysis to yield lessons learned
320743 -         are a unique deliverable of SDS work product for continual
320744 -         learning, explained in POIMS. ref OF 5 7T9I  Examples of
320745 -         lessons learned on transformation to a culture of knowledge
320746 -         are listed on 040102. ref SDS 30 PX5H  Lessons learned from
320747 -         medical practice are listed on 040517. ref SDS 33 PW8F  Using
320748 -         SDS for any field of knowledge work routinely aids learning
320749 -         because the design integrates time and context.
320750 -
320751 -
320752 -
320753 -
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Presencing History Background SDS Developing New Theories Tools Prac

3403 -
340401 -          ..
340402 -         Background Evolving New Theories, Tools, and Practice
340403 -
340404 -     3.  Presencing evolved from the authors correlating personal
340405 -         experiences with interviews of noted leaders, ref SDS 0 XL67,
340406 -         and builds on Senge's work on the "learning organization" and
340407 -         theories on the practice of management. ref SDS 0 XL30
340409 -          ..
340410 -         SDS integration of management science, cognitive science, and
340411 -         computer science evolved from experience in business and
340412 -         litigation showing the weak link in management is human
340413 -         memory. (see history of SDS, reported on 000723, ref SDS 21
340414 -         0008)  The new world order of the 21st century compresses time
340415 -         and distance, which paradoxically overwhelms limited span of
340416 -         attention, causing continual bumbling rather than continual
340417 -         learning. (see Kissinger on 940609, ref SDS 7 4238)  Research
340418 -         on 950707 shows management systems degrade to entropy because
340419 -         people cannot find information in time to meet work flow.
340420 -         ref SDS 11 0108  Sources on Presencing appear to recognize
340421 -         this new reality. ref OF 23 TY65  SDS strengthens the innate
340422 -         mental process of investing intellectual capital for personal
340423 -         and organizational memory with a practice of time management
340424 -         that correlates past experience with new information. see
340425 -         POIMS. ref OF 5 09JE  This kind of "intelligence" support
340426 -         improves work the authors performed in developing Presencing.
340427 -         (see book review, ref SDS 0 LO4I)  Experience has shown that
340428 -         getting talented people to improve their work is a big
340429 -         challenge which Presencing leadership training might address.
340430 -
340431 -
340432 -
340433 -
340434 -
3405 -

SUBJECTS
Presencing Book Oxford Student Asks about Correlation Application SD
Transformation from Information to Culture of Knowledge Requires Fai

4404 -
440501 -          ..
440502 -         Leadership with Broader Vision Changes Attitudes to Improve
440503 -         Transformation Requires Faith, Commitment, and Time
440504 -
440505 -     4.  Commitment to practice SDS in order to achieve meaningful
440506 -         change takes time and courage to retool skills, which can be
440507 -         frustrating, explained in POIMS. ref OF 7 V47F  Fostering
440508 -         commitment to overcome ignorance, fear, and denial that resist
440509 -         change seems to have been a factor in Senge turning to
440510 -         meditation and spirituality for leadership. ref SDS 0 KL41
440512 -          ..
440513 -         Presencing might fit the model of leadership with a broader
440514 -         vision set out in NWO, ref OF 13 4305, to aid transformation
440515 -         from information to a culture of knowledge.
440517 -          ..
440518 -         Leadership can enable people to gain experience that overcomes
440519 -         ignorance, fear, and denial that improvement is needed and
440520 -         possible, discussed on 030103, ref SDS 27 2U50, and
440521 -         illustrated by the SDS Typical Day Scenario. ref OF 9 4679  On
440522 -         960924 Max Blodgett applied this leadership to help people
440523 -         discover the power of knowledge at USACE. ref SDS 10 IJ7S  On
440524 -         031211 relentless pressure through persistant exposure enables
440525 -         people to gain enough experience to change attitudes about
440526 -         investing time to work intellgently. ref SDS 28 PE5Y
440528 -          ..
440529 -         For example, a customer on 990505 needed help changing
440530 -         attitudes at the San Francisco International Airport that
440531 -         resist improvement to save lives, time, and money. ref SDS 16
440532 -         4732  Earlier, on 980307 Andy Grove noted the challenge at
440533 -         Intel getting successful executives to improve is like
440534 -         "...walking through the Valley of Death." ref SDS 14 1657  On
440535 -         890324 better management seemed like "unnecessary overkill."
440536 -         ref SDS 1 8R51  A few months later on 890809 technology
440537 -         executive wants to be 100% sure working intelligently saves
440538 -         lives, time and money, because everybody is afraid to go first
440539 -         using technology to strengthen alphabet technology.
440540 -         ref SDS 2 V66N
440542 -          ..
440543 -         Buckminster Fuller is credited with observing that changing an
440544 -         established culture takes about 50 years, reported 011210.
440545 -         ref SDS 24 R66K  Every generation faces the challenge of
440546 -         change embodied by the legend of Prometheus, who had the
440547 -         courage to defy the gods of Greek culture in giving the power
440548 -         of knowledge to humanity, reviewed on 991108. ref SDS 19 5810
440550 -          ..
440551 -         Presencing may give courage a boost, shown by authorities
440552 -         below, ref SDS 0 XM3R, to help people gain faith for
440553 -         overcoming ignorance, fear, and denial that intelligence
440554 -         support is essential to cope in the new world order of
440555 -         information overload recognized in some of the authorities who
440556 -         discuss Presencing. ref OF 23 TY65
440557 -
440558 -
440559 -
440560 -
4406 -

SUBJECTS
Presencing Freedom Creativity Drive Future Possibilities Transcend T

4903 -
490401 -          ..
490402 -         Freedom Creativity Drive Change by Speaking Truth to Power
490403 -         Speaking Truth to Power Transcends Classic Theory XY Conflict
490404 -
490405 -     5.  SDS helps transcend the classic Theory X and Theory Y dilemma
490406 -         that places freedom and creativity in conflict with command
490407 -         and control for getting things done correctly, on time, and
490408 -         within budget related in Drucker's work, reviewed on 931130.
490409 -         ref SDS 6 9677
490411 -          ..
490412 -         Presencing may help speak truth to power that transcends the
490413 -         core XY conflict endemic to bureaucracy, reviewed on 040203.
490414 -         ref SDS 31 E44K
490415 -
490416 -
490417 -
490418 -
4905 -

SUBJECTS
Knowledge Management Advances Information Methods Presencing Knowled

5003 -
500401 -          ..
500402 -         Knowledge Management Advances Information Methods
500403 -
500404 -     6.  POIMS defines "Knowledge Management" for "connecting the dots"
500405 -         to discover correlations, implications and nuance in time to
500406 -         save lives, time, and money. ref OF 4 J26O
500408 -          ..
500409 -         Presencing appears to support a branch of KM that aids
500410 -         personal relationships, also, cited in POIMS. ref OF 4 O87L  A
500411 -         recent paper on Knowledge Management notes the wide variety of
500412 -         ways KM is presented in the literature and in practice, and
500413 -         further appears to view Presencing for leadership to
500414 -         facilitate change. ref OF 23 DT64  A recent seminar on
500415 -         Presencing notes emphasis on personal relationships,
500416 -         ref OF 21 6I62, that evidently ignores the "prison" of
500417 -         history. ref SDS 0 015R  SDS complements this emphasis by
500418 -         empowering people to construct relationships that "connect the
500419 -         dots" from daily work which reveal causation for decision
500420 -         support and planning based on the rule "past is prologue."
500421 -         (see POIMS, ref OF 6 1112)
500422 -
500423 -
500424 -
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SUBJECTS
Professional Discipline Training Practices New Work Role Presencing
Professional Discipline Training Practices New Work Role Presencing

5504 -
550501 -          ..
550502 -         Professional Discipline Training Practices New Work Role
550503 -         Institutional Research IR New Work Role Knowledge Management
550504 -
550505 -     7.  Professional work role seems essential for SDS to convert
550506 -         information into knowledge assets, as set out in NWO.
550507 -         ref OF 13 6369  The US Army Corps of Engineers specified
550508 -         qualifications and training for using SDS to perform the eight
550509 -         (8) steps of Communication Metrics. ref DRP 4 JK4N
550511 -          ..
550512 -         Research on Presencing shows similar considerations in
550513 -         education for evolving an existing role of Institutional
550514 -         Research (IR) into an effective KM activity. ref OF 23 TZ53
550515 -
550516 -
550517 -
550518 -
5506 -

SUBJECTS
Cost savings SDS Track Record Demonstrate Ability to Perform Presenc

5703 -
570401 -          ..
570402 -         Cost savings Track Record Demonstrate Ability to Perform
570403 -
570404 -     8.  Presencing seems to be relatively new approach to strengthen
570405 -         leadership.  Research on the Internet found not examples of
570406 -         work product, deliverables nor cost effectiveness.
570408 -          ..
570409 -         SDS builds a better partnership between leadership and
570410 -         technology.  A DOD study found SDS saves money at the rate of
570411 -         10:1, reflecting the general rule that time is money and
570412 -         knowledge is power. ref DRP 5 0001  Approximately 30,000
570413 -         records (like this one) have been generated to perform daily
570414 -         work over the past 20 years, showing technology can routinely
570415 -         aid the practice of management by augmenting intelligence,
570416 -         cited by Drucker as an essential step for transformation,
570417 -         reviewed on 991025. ref SDS 18 0785
570418 -
570419 -
570420 -
570421 -
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SUBJECTS
Senge Marketing Education by Selling Books and Self-help Seminars

5803 -
5804 - Background
580501 -  ..
580502 - Senge Marketing Education by Selling Books and Self-help Seminars
580503 -
580504 - Follow up ref SDS 36 F75Y.
580505 -
580506 - Research today found a lot of sources on Presencing, including...
580507 -
580508 -    1.  Interview Dr Claus Otto
580509 -        Scharmer............................ 020201, ref OF 20 0001
580511 -         ..
580512 -        Bibliography..............................., ref OF 20 6Z4N
580514 -         ..
580515 -    2.  Knowledge Management seminar promoted
580516 -        with association of presencing and
580517 -        endorsing Scharmer's
580518 -        book................................ 040622, ref SDS 36 F75Y
580520 -         ..
580521 -    3.  Marketing explanation of
580522 -        the book Presence: Human
580523 -        Purpose and the Field of
580524 -        the Future.......................... 050322, ref OF 22 0001
580526 -         ..
580527 -    4.  Review of Presence by SOL........... 050322, ref OF 21 0001
580529 -         ..
580530 -    5.  Knowledge Management and
580531 -        Presencing leadership for
580532 -        change.............................. 050322, ref OF 23 0001
580534 -  ..
580535 - Presence has a marketing website where we learn the book is available
580536 - for the price of $40. ref OF 22 6I6M
580538 -  ..
580539 - There is no indication that Presence is available in a computer file
580540 - to facilitate learning, as called out in POIMS, ref OF 7 3742, and
580541 - illustrated by this record.
580543 -  ..
580544 - A Presence "workbook" is available to download, ref OF 22 UL7L, which
580545 - is helpful to learn about Presencing and implementation.  An
580546 - application of the workbook by a reviewer who attended a seminar,
580547 - ref OF 21 0001, is reviewed below. ref SDS 0 IY5M
580549 -  ..
580550 - SOL is a society of organizational learning that provides cultural
580551 - ballast and infrastructure to bolster sales with the appearance of
580552 - followers that lend credibility to customers. ref OF 22 R58K
580553 -
580554 -        Correlation with Presencing to learn from the future is not
580555 -        clear from the website.
580557 -  ..
580558 - Peter Senge at MIT is one of several authors who contributed to
580559 - Presence. ref OF 22 0001  Senge's work on organizational learning was
580560 - first reviewed in the record on 930216, ref SDS 4 8998, and again on
580561 - 950911 in connection with calls for continual learning presented by
580562 - the Tofflers. ref SDS 8 2222
580563 -
580564 -
580565 -
580566 -
5806 -

SUBJECTS
Presencing Defined Scharmer Feelings Facilitate Profound Innovation

5903 -
590401 -  ..
590402 - Presencing is explained in sources as....
590403 -
590405 -     ..
590406 -    Scharmer (one of the authors) is interviewed...
590408 -         ..
590409 -        Feelings Facilitate Profound Innovation and Change
590410 -        Liberate Perceptions from the Past to Operate in the Future
590411 -
590412 -
590413 - Scharmer interview...
590414 -
590415 -        Presencing is based on an inner change of location.  Presencing
590416 -        means: liberating one's perception from the "prison" of the
590417 -        past and then letting it operate from the field of the future.
590418 -        This means that you literally shift the place from which your
590419 -        perception operates to another vantage point.  In practical
590420 -        terms, presencing means that you link yourself in a very real
590421 -        way with your "highest future possibility" and that you let it
590422 -        come into the present.  Presencing is always relevant when
590423 -        past-driven reality no longer brings you forward, and when you
590424 -        have the feeling that you have to begin again on a completely
590425 -        new footing in order to progress.  For example, my colleagues
590426 -        Adam Kahane, Joe Jaworski, Katrin K„ufer, Ursula Versteegen,
590427 -        and I use the presencing approach to facilitate profound
590428 -        innovation and change processes both within companies and
590429 -        across societal systems. ref OF 20 C442
590430 -
590431 -           [On 050325 John Maloney reported that Presencing has been
590432 -           the foundation for KM Clusters the past 10 years.
590433 -           ref SDS 40 MP6M
590435 -  ..
590436 - Grove points out in his book "Only the Paranoid Survive" that change
590437 - arrives quietly with little "cat feet," when suddenly methods that
590438 - brought past success are no longer effective, reviewed on 980307.
590439 - ref SDS 13 6148  He recommends investing "sunshine profits" to
590440 - experiment in order to discover how evolving new realities can become
590441 - new assets rather than overwhelming risks. ref SDS 13 3416
590443 -  ..
590444 - "New World Order Needs Old Time Religion" posits change is occurring
590445 - from compressing time and distance, and this makes information
590446 - technology obsolete for knowledge work. ref OF 10 8303
590447 -
590448 -
590449 -
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590452 -
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Future Possibilities Through Reflection Becoming-Present Spiritualit

6103 -
610401 -         ..
610402 -        Future Possibilities Through Reflection Becoming-Present
610403 -        Spirituality Added to Senge's Ideas on Learning Organization
610404 -        Senge Organizational Learning Applied to Socio-economic Systems
610405 -        Presencing Adds Spirituality to Senge's Prior Work on Learning
610406 -
610407 -
610408 -        Learning Organization Implemented through Presencing
610410 -  ..
610411 - Scharmer interview continues...
610412 -
610413 -        Peter Senge's first book, The Fifth Discipline, brought the
610414 -        concept of organizational learning to a global audience.  The
610415 -        new book that Senge, Joseph Jaworski, Betty Sue Flowers, and I
610416 -        have just finished expands on this approach in three
610417 -        directions: first,by widening the perspectives of teams and
610418 -        organizations to encompass overall socio-economic systems;
610419 -        second, by deepening the perspectives in regard to the personal
610420 -        depth experience and consciousness development, meaning to
610421 -        explicitly consider the spiritual dimension of social
610422 -        processes; and third, in view of the underlying learning
610423 -        theory, by an expansion of the old Kolb learning
610424 -        cycles-learning through reflecting on the past-through
610425 -        presencing, through the "becoming-present" of the highest
610426 -        future possibility.  My forthcoming book on presencing outlines
610427 -        the methodological and theoretical foundations of this
610428 -        approach. ref OF 20 C536
610430 -  ..
610431 - Drucker calls for analysis to drive proactive management that prepares
610432 - for evolving new realities, reviewed on 931130. ref SDS 6 1855
610434 -  ..
610435 - Grove at Intel calls on executives to prepare copious notes for
610436 - understanding the story of complex events, ref SDS 14 3668, and to
610437 - have courage meeting the challenge of change, reviewed on 980307,
610438 - ref SDS 14 4862  He recommends investing sunshine profits to
610439 - experiment for discovering how to adjust proactively, rather than wait
610440 - to be overwhelmed by new realities. ref SDS 13 3416
610442 -  ..
610443 - One authority reports Senge sees the challenge of growing commitment
610444 - to perform good management consistently (see below, ref SDS 0 XN80),
610445 - called out by Drucker, reviewed on 991025, ref SDS 18 0785, and which
610446 - Senge embodies with "organizational learning."
610448 -  ..
610449 - Learning tools and methods using a cognitive assistant seems to be a
610450 - goal of the CALO project, reviewed on 040221, ref SDS 32 5U6J, and
610451 - sponsored by DARPA. ref SDS 32 0K52
610453 -  ..
610454 - Presencing seems to propose meditation and spirituality for giving
610455 - courage a boost in preparing for the future. ref SDS 0 XL30 and
610456 - ref SDS 0 009I  Some authorities mention Senge's ideas on "learning
610457 - histories," which sound like a record of understandings from personal
610458 - and organizational memory about daily work, meetings, and discussions.
610459 - ref OF 23 DS64  Presencing may therefore recognize the need for
610460 - analysis, enabled by SDS. ref OF 5 2300
610462 -            ..
610463 -           [On 050325 John Maloney reported that Presencing has been
610464 -           the foundation for KM Clusters the past 10 years.
610465 -           ref SDS 40 MP6M
610467 -            ..
610468 -           [On 050422 meditation is listed for contributing to curing
610469 -           and avoiding cancer. ref SDS 44 Q16O
610470 -
610471 -
610472 -
610473 -
610474 -
6105 -

SUBJECTS
Change Changes When People Sense and Change the Future Marketing Exp

6303 -
630401 -     ..
630402 -    Marketing explanation....
630404 -         ..
630405 -        Change Changes When People Sense and Change the Future
630406 -
630407 -        How would the world change if we learned to access,
630408 -        individually and collectively, our deepest capacity to sense
630409 -        and shape the future?  This is just one of the questions posed
630410 -        by the authors of a book that combines unusual personal honesty
630411 -        with rigorous critical thinking. ref OF 22 0001
630412 -
630413 -
630414 -
630415 -
630416 -
630417 -
6305 -

SUBJECTS
Change and Learning New Theory Based on Interviewing Experts for Pre

6403 -
640401 -         ..
640402 -        Change and Learning New Theory Based on Interviewing Experts
640403 -
640404 -        Presence:  Human Purpose and the Field of the Future gives the
640405 -        reader an intimate look at the development of a new theory
640406 -        about change and learning.  In wide-ranging conversations held
640407 -        over a year and a half, Senge, Scharmer, Jaworski, and Flowers
640408 -        explore their own experiences and those of one hundred and
640409 -        fifty scientists and social and business entrepreneurs in an
640410 -        effort to explain how profound collective change occurs.  Their
640411 -        journey of discovery articulates a new way of seeing the world,
640412 -        and of understanding our part in creating it-as it is and as it
640413 -        might be. ref OF 22 NZ5F
640415 -  ..
640416 - John Maloney cites these folks in a press release on ideas that were
640417 - to be presented in a Knowledge Seminar last year, reported on 040620,
640418 - but "presencing" is not mentioned. ref SDS 34 W18L
640420 -  ..
640421 - John's press release mentions something about Knowledge Management
640422 - through conversation enables "learning from the future," ref SDS 34
640423 - LZ6O, and is mentioned again in a follow up letter the next day on
640424 - 040621. ref SDS 35 2V6U  Sounds a bit similar to this report on
640425 - presencing, ref SDS 0 XL67, and to Scharmer's interview offering a
640426 - construction of "future possibilities," in combination with Senge's
640427 - background promoting "organizational learning." ref SDS 0 XL30
640429 -  ..
640430 - How was personal experience correlated to work product from
640431 - interviewing experts?  Were interviews tape recorded and transcribed?
640432 - Was the record of interviews correlated with writings and work product
640433 - of experts?  How was the experience of interviewers aligned or
640434 - otherwise compared with results of interviews?  Is there a record
640435 - showing how understandings from interviews and reflections on personal
640436 - experience lead to lessons learned, new ideas, theories, etc.  For
640437 - example, how did comments from expert #8 relate to comments by experts
640438 - number 27 and 130?  Was some sort of knowledge spreadsheet developed
640439 - to facilitate correlations, or were conclusions based solely on first
640440 - impression and rememberances?
640442 -  ..
640443 - Is the book the only record of the work?  Did those interviewed get
640444 - feedback on the interviews to clarify meaning, intent, and scope of
640445 - initial remarks?
640446 -
640447 -
640448 -
640449 -
6405 -

SUBJECTS
Presence Synthesize Leading-edge Thinking Ancient Wisdom First-hand

6503 -
650401 -         ..
650402 -        Seven Capabilities Sense New Possibilities
650403 -        Sensory Perception Magic Number 7 for Discovery Possibilities
650404 -
650405 -        Radical and hopeful, Presence synthesizes leading-edge
650406 -        thinking, first-hand knowledge, and ancient wisdom to explore
650407 -        the living fields that connect us to one another, to life more
650408 -        broadly, and, potentially, to what is "seeking to emerge."
650409 -        Seven capacities underlie our ability to see, sense, and
650410 -        realize new possibilities.  Developing these capacities
650411 -        accesses a deeper level of learning that is the key to creating
650412 -        change that serves the whole-ourselves, our organizations, and
650413 -        the communities of which we are a part. ref OF 22 VZ6F
650415 -  ..
650416 - This seems to relate to sensory perception reviewed on 990303 in
650417 - relation to the magic number 7 (sins, days of the week, colors, habits
650418 - of successful people, rows in solitaire), that limits human span of
650419 - attention, ref SDS 15 5328, discussed in POIMS. ref OF 3 8536
650420 -
650421 -
650422 -
650424 -  ..
6505 - Leaders Interviewed to Make Sense of Personal Experiences              60
650501 -
6506 -

SUBJECTS
Book Review by Roumiana Gotseva-Yordanova on Presencing

6803 -
680401 -     ..
680402 -    Book Review by Roumiana Gotseva-Yordanova
680403 -
680404 -
680405 -        Leaders Interviewed to Make Sense of Personal Experiences
680406 -        Presencing Came from Past Experience Nov 2000 - April 2002
680407 -        Synchrocity Relates Individual Commitment Group Phenomenon
680408 -
680409 -        Explores issues such as synchronicity as it relates to
680410 -        individual commitment, and flow as a group phenomenon.  Based
680411 -        on more than 150 interviews with leaders in all walks of life,
680412 -        the book merges these accounts with a process of making sense
680413 -        of them and of the individual experiences of the four authors -
680414 -        a process that took place between November 2000 and April 2002.
680415 -        ref OF 21 I66I
680416 -
680417 -
680418 -
680419 -
6805 -

SUBJECTS
Learning Deeper Integrated Leadership Science Spirituality

7003 -
700401 -         ..
700402 -        Leadership Science Spirituality Integrated for Deeper Learning
700403 -
700404 -        It starts with a fundamental question: "What would it take to
700405 -        shift the whole?" It furthers the theory of deep collective
700406 -        learning, which `"starts with learning to see, moves on to
700407 -        opening a new awareness of what is emerging and our part in it,
700408 -        and finally leads to action that spontaneously serves and is
700409 -        supported by a larger whole." The book concludes with a section
700410 -        that locates this deeper learning within a framework of "a more
700411 -        integrative science, spirituality, and practice of leadership."
700412 -        ref OF 21 009I
700414 -  ..
700415 - Integration is a helpful method of improving existing methods.
700417 -  ..
700418 - SDS integrates...
700419 -
700420 -         People, Process, Time............ ref OF 3 015M
700421 -
700422 -
700423 -
700424 -
700425 -
700426 -
700427 -
7005 -

SUBJECTS
Sensing and Actualizing New Realities Prior to Their Emerging Courag

7103 -
710401 -         ..
710402 -        Sensing and Actualizing New Realities Prior to Their Emerging
710403 -        Courage Suspend Disbelief While Considering New Possibilities
710404 -
710405 -        This objectives is explained in three (3) ways...
710407 -                 ..
710408 -            1.  Sensing:  The capacity to suspend, the courage to see
710409 -                freshly, seeing from the whole, seeing with the heart.
710410 -                Quieting the mind.  Avoiding knee-jerk reactions to
710411 -                problems, distancing yourself from the problem.
710412 -                Redirecting attention. ref OF 21 004R
710414 -  ..
710415 - This language is similar to a press release John Maloney submitted on
710416 - 040620 promoting a seminar on Knowledge Management.  Most of the
710417 - language in the press release is undefined jargon that does not offer
710418 - constructive ideas, however, this part is insightful. ref SDS 34 LZ6O
710420 -  ..
710421 - Rational for presencing provides faith and courage for people to
710422 - suspend disbelief due to inexperience and ignorance long enough to
710423 - gain experience through experiment to learn a new way of working,
710424 - shown by comments of people who have attended professional events that
710425 - present presencing, per below. ref SDS 0 GS3H
710427 -  ..
710428 - Courage presents a possible nexus between SDS and Presencing, per
710429 - above, ref SDS 0 KK3M, as a critical dimension of character, and
710430 - essential for leadership to meet the challenge of a new world order...
710431 -
710432 -        Courage rises above conflict............... ref OF 10 04O2
710433 -        Courage overcomes denial................... ref OF 10 0DF6
710434 -        Threshold ingredient for improvement....... ref OF 13 Q74L
710435 -        Transformation tools methods courage....... ref OF 13 WG8L
710436 -        Intelligence role requires courage......... ref OF 13 0468
710437 -        Quantum leap into 21st century............. ref OF 14 7055
710438 -
710439 -
710440 -
710441 -
710442 -
710443 -
7105 -

SUBJECTS
Presencing Grasps Possibilities through Meditation Meditate Spiritua
Future Possibilities Through Reflection Becoming-Present Spiritualit

7304 -
730501 -                 ..
730502 -                Presencing Grasps Possibilities through Meditation
730503 -                Meditate Spirituality Bring Clarity through Presencing
730504 -
730505 -            2.  Into the silence, reaching a state of clarity to what
730506 -                is emerging, an inner knowing that is quite the
730507 -                opposite of decision-making. "What to do just becomes
730508 -                obvious".  Presencing is seeing from the deepest source
730509 -                and becoming a vehicle for that source. "When we
730510 -                suspend and redirect attention, perception starts to
730511 -                arise from within the living process of the whole". "It
730512 -                is easier for a camel to go through the eye of the
730513 -                needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God"
730514 -                - at the bottom of the U lies a sort of inner gate
730515 -                which requires us to drop the baggage we've acquired on
730516 -                our journey: letting go and letting come. ref OF 21
730517 -                6H8W
730519 -  ..
730520 - Meditation seems related to spirituality listed by Scharmer, above,
730521 - ref SDS 0 XL30, and is expressly cited by a participation in a seminar
730522 - on Presencing. ref SDS 0 ZP4F
730523 -
730524 -        [On 050422 meditation is listed for contributing to curing and
730525 -        avoiding cancer. ref SDS 44 Q16O
730526 -
730527 -
730528 -
730529 -
730530 -
7306 -

SUBJECTS
Social Construction of Realities through Language Vision Passion Spi

7603 -
760401 -                 ..
760402 -                Social Construction of Realities through Language
760403 -                Vision Passion Spirit Transcend Social Constuctivism
760404 -                Modernist Sensibility Human Intentionality and Choice
760405 -                Realizing Deeper than Rational Magic Evolutionary Logic
760406 -
760407 -            3.  Moving up the U is about the creative process, bringing
760408 -                something new into reality.  This comes from a source
760409 -                that is deeper than the rational mind. "If you have to
760410 -                think in the martial arts, you're dead," says Brian
760411 -                Arthur.  In the words of another interviewee: "It's
760412 -                almost as if I'm watching myself in action.  I'm both
760413 -                engaged and simultaneously detached.  When that
760414 -                happens, I know there will be magic".  As a final note,
760415 -                my only concern with Presence and the Theory of U is
760416 -                with the idea of `a future' that wants to emerge,
760417 -                reminiscent of the grand narratives of a
760418 -                not-too-distant past.  At times referred to as "sensing
760419 -                and actualizing new realities prior to their emerging",
760420 -                `a future', in the singular, connotes a degree of
760421 -                determinism combined with an external (cosmic) locus of
760422 -                evolutionary logic which counters much of the social
760423 -                constructivist thinking that appears to be an integral
760424 -                part of the theoretical framework.  And this is how I
760425 -                understand the book: a cornucopia of discourses, from
760426 -                romantic `deep interiors' - the home of vision and
760427 -                passion and spirit, to interrelated mind and world
760428 -                (`the implicate order'), a touch of ancient mysticism,
760429 -                a revision of systems thinking with its underlying
760430 -                limitations in relation to large system complexity, a
760431 -                modernist sensibility of human intentionality and
760432 -                choice, to the social construction of our realities
760433 -                through language.  The narrative however is sincere,
760434 -                hopeful, and warmly intimate - we, too, are sitting in
760435 -                the study of Otto's home on Maple Avenue in Cambridge,
760436 -                Massachusetts, listening in on the conversations,
760437 -                drawing upon the same thematic resources that seem to
760438 -                illuminate the issue at hand.  One might argue that the
760439 -                skillful blending of (at times conflicting) discourses
760440 -                is not accidental; indeed, it can be considered
760441 -                strategic, for regardless of one's beliefs, one would
760442 -                likely find an anchor in Presence to justify and
760443 -                rationalize the need for a major shift in today's
760444 -                world.  Something most definitely needs to change, and
760445 -                it doesn't matter where we come from as long as we
760446 -                connect at this intersection. ref OF 21 6H9X
760447 -
760448 -
760449 -
7605 -

SUBJECTS
Meditation Illuminates Meaning of Presencing Principles Presencing P
Psychology Meditation Illuminates Meaning of Presencing Principles P

8204 -
820501 -         ..
820502 -        Meditation Illuminates Meaning of Presencing Principles
820503 -        Presencing Principles and Meaning Illuminated by Meditation
820504 -        Facilitators Empathic Stortyelling Aid Meditative Exercises
820505 -        Leadership Foundations Presencing Workshop Gifted Facilitators
820506 -
820507 -        The three-day workshop in Cambridge, MA, started with a
820508 -        discussion on the principles of participation: the realization
820509 -        that alignment in the group is something already there that one
820510 -        evokes in a deep way because people care about similar things.
820511 -        All one has to do is bring it out.  When people stick to the
820512 -        principles of being present, being open, being engaged and
820513 -        being responsible, they tend to naturally align with one
820514 -        another.  In the three short days that followed, our group
820515 -        experienced an intellectual and spiritual journey that taught
820516 -        us the deep meaning of those principles, illuminated through
820517 -        meditative exercises and small group work, and interspersed
820518 -        with anecdotes that became wonderfully alive through the
820519 -        empathetic storytelling of our gifted facilitators. ref OF 21
820520 -        6I3R
820522 -  ..
820523 - Meditative exercises aligns with Sharmer's explanation that Senge has
820524 - added "reflection" and "spirituality" to his ideas on organizational
820525 - learning, per above. ref SDS 0 XL30  Meditation is also mentioned in a
820526 - book review on Presencing. ref SDS 0 YK4M
820527 -
820528 -     [On 050422 meditation is listed for contributing to curing and
820529 -     avoiding cancer. ref SDS 44 Q16O
820531 -  ..
820532 - "Inner change of location, liberating perception from the "prison" of
820533 - the past, and operating from the field of the future, also, cited by
820534 - Scharmer, ref SDS 0 015R, reflect a school of Knowledge Management
820535 - presented in popular seminars and literature.  Gifted KM facilitators
820536 - using deliberately managed conversation propose that talking about KM
820537 - is "doing" KM by creating fantastic social relationships, reviewed on
820538 - 010114. ref SDS 22 EK3I
820539 -
820540 -     [On 050325 John Maloney reported that presencing is the foundation
820541 -     of Knowledge Management using "authentic conversation."
820542 -     ref SDS 40 1P8G
820544 -      ..
820545 -     [On 050325 John Maloney says authentic conversation overcomes
820546 -     silent killers of knowledge leadership; pervasive 20th-century
820547 -     traditions of linear, mechanical and reductionist thinking paired
820548 -     with obsolete managerial behaviours of control, dominance and
820549 -     technocracy.  Top knowledge leaders learn from the emerging future
820550 -     through authentic conversation.  21st-century knowledge leaders
820551 -     actively pursue external interactions and continuously use genuine
820552 -     action/research networks to their strategic and collaborative
820553 -     advantage. ref SDS 40 4N9I
820555 -      ..
820556 -     [On 050325 research on "authentic convresation" shows application
820557 -     to religion. ref SDS 40 2N8G
820559 -  ..
820560 - Gifted facilitators in religion, self-actualization, and personal
820561 - growth movements like EST, the Forum, Scientology, et al, provide
820562 - powerful "feel good" inducement for customers to experience a sense of
820563 - transformation.
820565 -  ..
820566 - Realization, Presencing seem related to literature from the 1970s and
820567 - 1980s.  For example, a source on the Internet says in part...
820568 -
820569 -           http://www.xs4all.nl/~anco/mental/randr/feat.htm
820570 -
820571 -        After completing the Forum, the first of Landmark's seminars
820572 -        collectively called a curriculum for living, he demonstrated an
820573 -        intense enthusiasm similar to an obsession for enrolling
820574 -        friends and relatives into the program.  According to him, the
820575 -        Forum created a perpetual feeling of "awesomeness" it was truly
820576 -        a "life transforming experience."
820578 -         ..
820579 -        Werner Erhard formed a unique blend of Scientology (a quasi-
820580 -        religious human potential group) and Zen Buddhism to create
820581 -        Erhard Seminar Training (EST) which first opened its doors in
820582 -        San Francisco during the early 1970s.  According to Erhard, Est
820583 -        transforms your ability to experience living so that the
820584 -        situation you have been putting up with or trying to change
820585 -        clears up just in the process of life itself.  Testa states
820586 -        that "The Forum attempts to deconstruct personal attachments in
820587 -        a non-abusive manner by focusing your attention inward: the
820588 -        basis is being kept in a [Forum center] for fourteen hour days
820589 -        with little sleep, listening to the same thing over and over.
820590 -        Most of it consists of having people look at their childhood,
820591 -        and finding the events that caused them to make decisions about
820592 -        other people, especially their parents.  This usually results
820593 -        in a closer relationship with the parents." So far, so good.
820594 -        Testa is accurate on every account, and if you ask a Forum
820595 -        graduate if they are closer to their parents or a loved one,
820596 -        they will almost always answer in the affirmative.
820597 -
820598 -
820599 -
820600 -
8207 -

SUBJECTS
Presencing Change Requires Commitment to Practice Principles of Part

8903 -
890401 -  ..
890402 - Book Review by Roumiana Gotseva-Yordanova continues...
890404 -         ..
890405 -        Commitment to Change Requires Practice of Faith Courage
890406 -        Principles of Participation in Life Personify Leadership
890407 -        Senge Says Seminars Offer New Ways of Behaving Not Content
890408 -        Transformation Takes Time to Gain Experience that Grows Faith
890409 -
890410 -        Reconvening at the final session in a circle, with our hopes
890411 -        fully exposed, masks down and vulnerabilities out in the open,
890412 -        ending thoughts and impressions were offered.  Looking back
890413 -        now, they added up to nothing less than the larger Principles
890414 -        of Participation as they apply to life itself.  And that, in my
890415 -        book, is what true leadership is about.  Peter Senge is quick
890416 -        to mention early on that the workshop is about expanding and
890417 -        fine-tuning our understanding of various ideas, making subtle
890418 -        distinctions and cultivating new ways of behaving rather than
890419 -        about new content.  All the content employed has already been
890420 -        covered in The Fifth Discipline.  The value of the program is
890421 -        in helping attendees internalize the insights generated by
890422 -        studying the ideas of the learning organization; i.e. with the
890423 -        `how' of learning and change, which is all about practice.  In
890424 -        his words, "The single biggest flaw in failed efforts is a lack
890425 -        of an ongoing commitment to practice."
890427 -  ..
890428 - Meditation to overcome frustrations from slow progress caused by lack
890429 - of commitment (i.e., lack of faith due to ignorance, fear, and denial)
890430 - to practice improvement, credited to Senge, per above, ref SDS 0 IY5M,
890431 - aligns with Grove's observation that getting successful executives to
890432 - improve the work is like "...walking through the Valley of Death,"
890433 - reviewed on 980307. ref SDS 14 1657
890434 -
890436 -         ..
890437 -        Religion Practice of Faith Presencing Transcends Disbelief
890438 -
890439 -
890440 - "Presencing" in this report of Senge's comments to a group of seminar
890441 - attendees, ref SDS 0 XN80, helps people suspend disbelief long enough
890442 - to gain faith in new ideas, methods, practices, and paradigms through
890443 - experience from experiment, ref SDS 0 XM3R, and cites the record on
890444 - 040620 reporting John Maloney's press release using the same language.
890445 - ref SDS 34 LZ6O
890447 -  ..
890448 - This may explain movement toward reliance on religion, spirituality,
890449 - ref SDS 0 XL30, synchrocity, ref SDS 0 LO4I, meditation, and magic
890450 - that describe "Presencing" in the sources found today, ref SDS 0 6H9X,
890451 - for teaching management by trying to reduce the 50 year period for
890452 - fundamental change in an established culture, credited to Buckminster
890453 - Fuller, reviewed on 011210. ref SDS 24 R66K
890455 -  ..
890456 - Senge and his colleagues might address the innovation loop of success,
890457 - where people need evidence from experience to gain sufficient faith
890458 - for changing what they are doing.  Without faith, people are blocked
890459 - from getting experience that expands faith in new methods, which is
890460 - why it takes a long time to get enough people with enough faith for
890461 - transformation. see POIMS, ref OF 7 T46O
890462 -
890463 -        Disruptive technologies change
890464 -        how people think, learn, work,
890465 -        communicate take time for
890466 -        transformation....................... 990527, ref SDS 17 9711
890468 -         ..
890469 -        Intel transformed computer industry
890470 -        by accident.......................... 960612, ref SDS 9 1368
890472 -         ..
890473 -        Faith moves mountains over
890474 -        the long haul........................ 921205, ref SDS 3 8493
890476 -  ..
890477 - Book Review by Roumiana Gotseva-Yordanova continues...
890478 -
890479 -        After spending the bulk of our time learning practices to
890480 -        enhance our innate learning capabilities, and having
890481 -        articulated, developed, shared, and embodied our personal
890482 -        visions, the program ends with a surprising and hopeful
890483 -        distinction.  There are two ways to think about visions; two
890484 -        general orientations: the first is best described in terms of
890485 -        ownership and protectiveness - "your" vision.  The second is
890486 -        where you belong to your vision - you are the custodian or
890487 -        channel for the vision that is larger than yourself.  For most
890488 -        of us, the distinction proved crucial during the meditative
890489 -        exercise that followed - people seem naturally inclined to
890490 -        aspire to visions they believe are shared by others, and to
890491 -        serve in their attainment.  Importantly, cultivating a capacity
890492 -        for relationship and an appreciation of the greatness in others
890493 -        helps us understand how our most powerful `personal' visions
890494 -        are actually quite universal. ref OF 21 6I62
890496 -         ..
890497 -        I'd seriously recommend the Foundations of Leadership program
890498 -        to everyone interested in exploring and practicing the
890499 -        disciplines of organizational learning in depth, and generally
890500 -        to anyone feeling the pull of a certain preferred future and
890501 -        the tug of constraining beliefs.  What Peter Senge and Robert
890502 -        Hanig achieve in such a short span of time most certainly takes
890503 -        months and years for people to resolve on their own, if ever.
890504 -        I went away with a sense of heightened self-awareness, the
890505 -        `permission' to dream, purposeful and deeply connected with
890506 -        others in the most abstract. ref OF 21 6I78
890507 -
890508 -
890509 -
890510 -
890511 -
890512 -
890513 -
890514 -
890515 -
890516 -
890517 -
890518 -
890519 -
890520 -
890521 -
8906 -