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Aim and Stats
Aim
Now in our seventh year of
operation, the aim of
the "OD" sessions is to continue to foster an
appreciation of Enterprise Thinking, as well as inthinking,
within an emerging thinking network that is
developing inside Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne and
beyond. Dates for future "OD" sessions along with
additional "thinking" opportunities for 2006 can be
found in this announcement.
OD Stats
For an update on OD
statistics, last month's invitation was sent to 3234
inthinking partners. With the latest cleaning of
the mailing list, this month's invitation is going
out to 3229 partners in the U.S., as well as fellow
inthinking partners in Australia, Austria,
Bosnia-Hercegovina, Brazil, Canada, Finland, France,
Germany, India, Iran, Ireland, Japan, Kenya,
Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Romania, Singapore,
Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden,
Switzerland, and the U.K.. Taken together, these
individuals represent over 440 organizations in this
list of nations, from elementary schools and senior
high schools to colleges and universities, from
one-person consulting firms to United Technologies,
IBM, General Electric, NASA, and Philips
Electronics. Among this list of invitees,
participation in last month?s conference call with
Clare Crawford-Mason included 33 partners from
across the US and England as well. Added to 228
partners for our sessions through May, 261 partners
have joined in so far this year (402 thinking
partners joined us throughout 2005). Yes, the
diffusion process continuuues...
In2:IN
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Good morning from Canoga Park, California, home of
United Technologies' Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne.
With the passing of International
Juggling Day (July 16th), in tribute to our
multi-tasking members, it's time to come together
for a few hours of "thinking together." This
month's Ongoing Discussion is scheduled for next
Wednesday, July 28th, from 12:30-2:30pm, and Friday,
July 30th, from 12-2pm Pacific Time.
Click here
for the July 2006 In2:IN newsletter.
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| Welcome First Timers |
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Your names have been added by virtue of your
attendance in our series of Thinking Roadmap
seminars and overviews, or attendance at the annual
In2:InThinking Network Forum, or through a personal
request, from you or a friend. Welcome to our
thinking network.
Click the link below to send me the name and email
address of anyone you would like to have added to
the mailing list, or let me know if you would like
to be removed.
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| July2006 Ongoing Discussion ? Adjacent Opportunities in Service (for corporate fellowship service programs) |
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The In2:InThinking Network is pleased to welcome Ron
Schultz back to the conversation in his capacity as
Founding Director of the Center for Social
Profit Leadership ? part of the Legacy
XXI Institute. When he last joined us as a
Thought Leader in January 2004, Ron was the founding
Executive Director of Volunteers of America
- Los Angeles' Social Entrepreneur Incubator,
established to identify and support social
entrepreneurs in the poorest of the poor communities
in Los Angeles. In this capacity, Mr. Schultz
developed the strategies and procedures for
selection, support and identification of social
entrepreneurs, which included the creation of a
format for continuing education, ongoing consulting,
and financial assistance.
The title of Ron's Thought
Piece is "Adjacent Opportunities in Service".
In brief, it is about "nudging" systems to produce
movement for change in the desired direction. His
example of how this works is an organization called
Building Blocks
International, led by Jennifer Anastasoff.
"Building Blocks International works with existing
corporate service fellowships, those programs begun
by corporations that offer four-week to full-year
opportunities for employees to take a sabbatical
from the corporation and apply their skills in
struggling communities around the world." Building
Blocks International has a goal of placing 5000
corporate service fellows by 2010. They already
have worked with 2300 fellows who are serving
communities around the world from Santiago, Chile to
Karakol, Kyrgyzstan, to Orissa, India.
Here are some questions to ponder before the
teleconference:
- What are ways in your own life by which you
might nudge or disturb a system?
- What are examples of leverage points in complex
systems?
- If we can't take a sabbatical, what are other
ways we can get outside of our routine lives and
make a difference?
- How might an organization's view of change in a
Red Pen Company differ from the view in a Blue Pen
Company?
Mr. Schultz is the President of Red Tiger and
Associates Consulting - a consulting firm
specializing in entrepreneurial activity,
innovation, enterprise and community development,
and change leadership. RTA works with
entrepreneurial people who lead and are accountable
for the development and performance of their
enterprises (businesses, organizations, communities,
and social initiatives) and whose enterprises have a
compelling need to develop, change and adapt in
today's complex and volatile marketplace.
If you are unable to join us, or would like to
reconnect with Ron after the OD sessions, you are
invited to contact him by email by clicking the link
below.
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| OD Details |
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Please join us for one or all of the hours of this
month?s OD. As always, you are invited to
participate for as long, or as short, as you can in one
or both of these sessions...
Option Time (Pacific
Time)
1 ? Wednesday, July 28th 12:30-1:30pm
2 ? Wednesday, July 28th 1:30-2:30pm
3 ? Friday, July 30th 12:00-1:00pm
4 ? Friday, July 30th 1:00-2:00pm
The agenda for each option will be:
Timing: Topic
Opening 10 minutes: Call in &
Introductions
Next 45 minutes: Ongoing Discussion
Last 5 minutes: Close
Please reply to this note by 5pm Pacific Time on
Tuesday, July 27th to confirm your plans to
participate in one (or more) of these options by
clicking "sign-up" below. If you do plan to attend,
please SPECIFY your option selection.
Those of you connecting in Canoga Park can join in
from conference rooms 205 and 206 in building 1 at
Canoga. Telecon lines have been arranged for those
who cannot join us at Canoga...
Inside & outside of Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne
866-285-7784
Pass code: 9823774
Note: if you have trouble connecting during the
telecon, contact me at 818-519-8209.
Please forward this announcement to anyone we
missed who would also like to participate.
Regards...
Bill
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| Future OD Dates |
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Mark your calendars - future Ongoing Discussion
sessions will be held on the following dates, from
12-1pm and 1-2pm Pacific Time.
Month, Dates and Thought Leader
August 24-25: Anna Maravelas
September 28-29: TBD
October 19-20 (or 26-27): TBD
November 16-17 (or 20-21): TBD
December 14-15: TBD
January 25-26: TBD
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| Systems Thinking Newsletter |
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Now available online for Pratt & Whitney
Rocketdyne employees...
The
Systems Thinker is an electronic newsletter
made available monthly (on a subscription basis) by
Pegasus
Communications. Each issue provides articles
and case studies on systems thinking concepts and
is available only electronically (as a .pdf file).
Tools
and techniques for use in the Learning Organization
are regularly included in this valuable publication.
Featured authors include thought leaders and
consultants well known in organizational learning and
change management circles.
The current edition of the SYSTEMS THINKER, as well
as archived issues from February 2003 through July
2006, is available for reading and printing by Pratt &
Whitney Rocketdyne employees here.
Network friends outside of Pratt & Whitney
Rocketdyne can learn more about this newsletter
AND read a variety of sample issues and articles online. Individual and site licenses are available.
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| Thinking Roadmap Seminars |
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Opportunities within Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne
(PWR) and The Boeing Company
The following in-house "Thinking Roadmap"
workshops are open to employees of Pratt & Whitney
Rocketdyne and The Boeing Company, as well as
suppliers, customers, family members, and "members
of the community." This schedule includes the next
available offerings for the listed seminars in
Canoga Park, CA plus offerings for the Enterprise
Thinking seminar in Huntington Beach, CA and
Decatur, AL. Contact Bill
Bellows for additional seminar information or to
register for any of these upcoming sessions.
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| Enterprise Thinking Workshop |
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Registration Fee - there is NO fee to attend.
Pre-requisite ? there are NO pre-requisites.
Format - 2 4.5 hour sessions over 2 days
Schedule for Enterprise Thinking classes in
Canoga
Park, CA for Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne
Class # CP-527
Part 1 - 26-Jul-06 - 7:00-11:30am
Part 2 - 27-Jul-06 - 7:00-11:30am
Class # CP-529
Part 1 - 17-Aug-06 - 7:00-11:30am
Part 2 - 18-Aug-06 - 7:00-11:30am
Class # CP-531
Part 1 - 31-Aug-06 - 7:00-11:30am
Part 2 - 1-Sept-06 - 7:00-11:30am
Schedule for Enterprise Thinking classes in
Huntington Beach, CA for The Boeing Company
To be determined
Schedule for Enterprise Thinking classes in
Decatur, AL for The Boeing Company
To be determined
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Sign-up for Enterprise Thinking |
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| Six Thinking Hats |
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Registration Fee - $165, charged back to
participant's department for PWR employees and paid
by check for "members of the community."
Pre-requisite - attended Enterprise Thinking within
the past 12 to 14 months.
Format - 1 8-hour session.
Schedule for Six Thinking Hats classes in Canoga
Park, CA for Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne
Class # CP-44
18-Dec-06 - 8:00-4:00pm
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Sign-up for Six Hats |
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| Lateral Thinking |
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Registration Fee - $130, charged back to
participant's department for PWR employees and paid
by check for "members of the community."
Pre-requisite ? attended Enterprise Thinking within
the past 12 to 14 months.
Format - 2 7-hour sessions over 2 weeks.
Schedule for Lateral Thinking classes in
Canoga Park,
CA for Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne
Class #CP-43
Part 1 - 23-Oct-06 - 8:00-4:00pm
Part 2 - 30-Oct-06 - 8:00-4:00pm
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Sign-up for Lateral Thinking |
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| Direct Applied Thinking Tools |
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Registration Fee - $50, charged back to
participant's department for PWR employees and paid
by check for "members of the community."
Pre-requisite - attended Enterprise Thinking within
the past 12 to 14 months.
Format - 2 7-hour sessions over 2 weeks.
Schedule for Direct Applied Thinking Tools
classes in Canoga Park,
CA for Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne
Class # CP-10
Part 1 - 18-Sep-06 - 8:00-4:00pm
Part 2 - 25-Sep-06 - 8:00-4:00pm
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Sign-up for Direct Applied Thinking Tools |
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| Managing Variation as a System |
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Registration Fee - there is NO fee to attend.
Pre-requisite ? there are NO pre-requisites.
Format - 3 3-hour sessions over 1 week.
Schedule for Managing Variation as a System
classes
in Canoga Park, CA for Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne
Class # CP-85
Part 1 - 11-Sep-06 - 8:00-11:00am
Part 2 - 13-Sep-06 - 8:00-11:00am
Part 3 - 15-Sep-06 - 8:00-11:00am
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Sign-up for Managing Variation |
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| Kepner-Tregoe Problem Solving and Decision Making |
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Registration Fee - $330, charged back to
participant's department for PWR employees and paid
by check for "members of the community."
Pre-requisite ? attended Enterprise Thinking within
the past 12 to 14 months.
Format - 3 7-hour sessions over 3 weeks.
Schedule for Kepner-Tregoe classes in Canoga
Park,
CA for Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne
Class # CP-85
Part 1 - 12-Sept-06 - 8:00-4:00pm
Part 2 - 19-Sept-06 - 8:00-4:00pm
Part 3 - 26-Sept-06 - 8:00-4:00pm
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Sign-up for Kepner-Tregoe |
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| The New Economics Study Session |
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Registration Fee - there is NO fee to attend.
Pre-requisite ? there are NO pre-requisites.
Format - 7 2 hour sessions over 3 weeks
Schedule for The New Economics Study Session
classes in Canoga Park, CA for Pratt & Whitney
Rocketdyne
Start Date: 14-Aug-06
End Date: 7-Sep-06
Days per Week: Monday and Thursday
Time: 4:00-6:00pm Pacific Time
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Sign-up for TNE Study Session |
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