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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 3384 inthinking partners.
With the latest updates to our mailing list, this
month's invitation is going out to 3473 partners in
the U.S., as well as fellow inthinking partners in
Australia, Austria, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Brazil,
Canada, China, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Germany,
India, Iran, Ireland, Japan, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico,
Netherlands, Romania, Russia, Singapore, Slovakia,
South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland,
Turkey, and the U.K.. Taken together, these
individuals represent over 470 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,
GM, IBM, General Electric, NASA, and Philips
Electronics. Among this list of invitees,
participation in last month’s OD conference call
with Madhav Phadke included 25 partners from across
the US and England as well. Added to 357 partners
for our sessions through October, 382 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 coming of Take
a Hike Day on November 17th, it's time to come
together for a few hours of hiking as well as "thinking
together."
This month’s Ongoing Discussion is scheduled for
Monday, November 20th and Tuesday, November
21st,
from 12-2pm Pacific Time on both days.
Click here
for the November 2006 In2:InThinking Network
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 networks.
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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Contact Bill Bellows |
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| November 2006 Ongoing Discussion – Jane Lorand |
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This month’s Thought Leader is Jane Lorand,
co-founder of the Green MBA program.
From the web page: “New College of California's
Green MBA program is an accredited, onsite graduate
program in the San Francisco Bay Area. Graduates
receive a Masters of Business Administration in
Sustainable Enterprise. This is a full-time,
two-year, 4-semester program in which we seek
solutions that promote financial viability,
ecological sustainability, and social justice. We
use a dynamic, project-oriented learning approach to
integrate the development of entrepreneurial and
intrapreneurial skills with the building of critical
thinking and leadership capacities. The mission of
the Green MBA program is to create a dynamic
learning environment where people with strong
environmental and social values develop effective
entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial capacities to
advance their initiatives, thereby promoting a more
just, sacred, and sustainable world.”
Jane’s Thought Piece is titled “The
Impossible Has Become Inevitable.”
Here is a brief excerpt:
“Whether the term we use is ‘Sustainable’ or
‘Green Business’ or ‘Environmentally and Socially
Responsible Business,’ or ‘Carbon Neutral’ or
‘Cradle to Cradle,’ or ‘Beyond-Regulatory-Compliance
Design’ or ‘Cleaner Production’…it won’t really
matter what we call it, we have hit a very ugly,
high and unyielding WALL. This WALL is a
combination of global warming, environmental health
crises and ecosystem services collapse. We have
brought this upon ourselves, giving over to greed,
materialism, short-term thinking and complex,
interpenetrating systems that concentrate wealth and
power to exploit humanity and the earth. There is no
way around this WALL without redesigning everything
we do and the way we do it. A staggering business
opportunity: a monumental undertaking that will ask
the best of all of us before the day is over.”
Indeed.
Jane works as a consultant to large corporations and
state agencies, developing programs for public
education in fields such as electric deregulation
and telecommunications. Her class room roles
include teaching Critical Thinking for Change
Leadership and Diffusion of Innovations.
A graduate of Hastings College of the Law,
University of California, San Francisco, she spent
three years at the Center
for Critical Thinking developing curriculum,
doing research, writing articles and teaching
college and high school faculties how to transform
their curriculum so students think more and memorize
less. She also holds an MA in education and a BA in
History from UCLA.
Jane is a mother of five children; she actively
works in her community bringing her analytical and
facilitation skills to the benefit of environmental
and educational organizations.
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Contact Jane Lorand |
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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 – Monday, November 20th 12:00-1:00pm
2 – Monday, November 20th 1:00-2:00pm
3 – Tuesday, November 21st 12:00-1:00pm
4 – Tuesday, November 21st 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 noon Pacific Time on
Friday, November 17th to confirm your plans to
participate in one (or more) of these options. If
you do plan to attend, please complete the OD
PARTICIPATION SURVEY by using the link below...
SURVEY
Those of you connecting in Canoga Park can join in
from conference rooms 205 and 206 in building 1 at
Canoga. Telecon lines (including a pass code and
a security code) have been arranged for those
who cannot join us at Canoga and are provided upon
completion of the participant survey.
Please forward this announcement to anyone we
missed who would also like to participate.
Regards...
Bill
Site Lead
Enterprise Thinking Network
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne
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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
December 14-15: Ralph Wood
January 18-19: Russell Ackoff (New Dates)
February 22-23: Sheldon Rovin
March 22-23: Andrew Johnson and Lynn Sumida
April 26-27: TBD
May 17-18: Chris Soderquist
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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
November
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)
The following in-house "Thinking Roadmap"
workshops are open to employees of Pratt & Whitney
Rocketdyne, 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. 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 - two 4.5-hour sessions over two
days
Schedule for Enterprise Thinking classes in
Canoga
Park, CA for Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne
Class # CP-539
Part 1 - 20-Nov-06 - 7:00-11:30am
Part 2 - 21-Nov-06 - 7:00-11:30am
Class # CP-541
Part 1 - 14-Dec-06 - 7:00-11:30am
Part 2 - 15-Dec-06 - 7:00-11:30am
Class # CP-543
Part 1 - 11-Jan-07 - 7:00-11:30am
Part 2 - 12-Jan-07 - 7:00-11:30am
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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 - one 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 Thinking 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 - two 7-hour sessions over two
weeks.
Schedule for Lateral Thinking classes in
Canoga Park,
CA for Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne
Class #
TBD
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Sign-up for Lateral Thinking |
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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 - three 3-hour sessions over three
days
Schedule for Managing Variation as a System
classes in Canoga Park, CA for Pratt & Whitney
Rocketdyne
Class # CP-85
Part 1 - 4-Dec-06 - 8:00-11:00am
Part 2 - 6-Dec-06 - 8:00-11:00am
Part 3 - 8-Dec-06 - 8:00-11:00am
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Sign-up for Managing Variation as a System |
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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 - three 7-hour sessions over three weeks.
Suggestion: If you are unable to attend all three
sessions in a given monthly series, we encourage you
to attend the first session and then attend the
second and third in any order during a future
monthly series.
Schedule for Kepner-Tregoe classes in Canoga
Park,
CA for Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne
Class # CP-85
Part 1 - 28-Nov-06 - 8:00-4:00pm
Part 2 - 7-Dec-06 - 8:00-4:00pm (NEW DATE)
Part 3 - 12-Dec-06 - 8:00-4:00pm
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Sign-up for Kepner-Tregoe Problem Solving & Decision Making Seminar |
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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 - seven 2-hour sessions over three
weeks
Schedule for The New Economics Study
Session
classes in Canoga Park, CA for Pratt & Whitney
Rocketdyne
Start Date: To be determined
End Date: To be determined
Days per Week: 2
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Sign-up for announcements of the next TNE Study Session |
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