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Aim and Stats
Now in our eighth 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 2007 can be found in this announcement.
OD Stats
For an update on OD statistics, this month's invitation is going out to 3500+ partners in the U.S., as well as fellow inthinking partners in Australia, Austria, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Brazil, Canada, China, Dubai, 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 600 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 Tracy Huston included 25 partners from across the US (264 have joined us so far in 9 sessions in 2007, 444 partners joined us throughout 2006, 402 thinking partners joined us throughout 2005).
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Good morning from Canoga Park, California,
home of the California operations for United Technologies' Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne.
With the upcoming 107th anniversary of the birth of W. Edwards Deming and the 97th birthday of the "Wizard of Westwood", UCLA basketball coach John Wooden, both on October 14th, it's time again to come together for a few
hours of "thinking together." This month's
Ongoing Discussion is scheduled for
Thursday, October 18th and Friday, October 19th,
from 12-2pm Pacific Time on both days.
Information on this month's Thought Leader follows below.
Click here for the PARTICIPANT SURVEY
for this month's OD and to receive the
conference call information once you complete the survey.
Cheers...
Bill Bellows
Associate Technical Fellow and Lead
Enterprise Thinking Network
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne
Canoga Park, California
william.bellows@pwr.utc.com
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Welcome First Timers
Your names have been added to this announcement list by virtue of your attendance in our series of Thinking Roadmap seminars, workshops, and overviews within Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, 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 either link below to send me the name(s) and email address(es) of anyone you would like to have added to this mailing list, or let me know if you would like to be removed. Thanks!!!
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Thought Leader - Gipsie Ranney
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne's Enterprise Thinking Network
welcomes Gipsie Ranney (shown below on recent visit to Peterhof, Peter the Great's summer palace. Click photo for full view) as our tenth Thought Leader for 2007 (and our 94th since
2000) on October 18th and 19th.
As you'll read in her Thought Piece ("An Interim Report on Motivation in the Workplace"), Gipsie has been a student of W. Edwards Deming's work
for more than 25 years. Think for a moment about that statement. She considers
herself a student, a learner rather than a knower. That makes Deming a teacher,
rather than a guru (dogma requires only adherence, not learning). Of course,
Deming is a well known example of a life long learner. Gipsie's enthusiasm over
25 years attests to the richness and depth of Deming's work. Deming references
Gipsie Ranney 3 times in Out of the Crisisand 4 times in The New Economics.
Gipsie recently began a literature review of motivation in
order to prepare a presentation for the upcoming Deming Institute Fall Conference at Purdue on October 13-14. She will address this same topic with us, "Motivation in the Worplace," in this month's Ongoing Discussion. As her Thought Piece this month, Gipsie
shares with us "An Interim Report on Motivation in the Workplace". If you have
ever found yourself in a carrot and stick situation, reaching for or proffering
the carrot, or feeling or wielding the stick, you will find this paper offers a
practical perspective on the way we work and live together.
Here are some questions that might be helpful to contemplate
before the conversation with Gipsie:
- What are some ways that you, as a manager, might
motivate your people to work harder and produce more?
- Have you ever tried to motivate a group of
people, and gotten results you didn't expect?
- What motivates you? Do you perform better in
response to the carrot or the stick?
- What if we get rid of the stick and just use
carrots?
- Can you describe your mental model, your deep
assumptions, about motivation?
- What is the current dollar value of an "A" in a
high school class? College class?
- What are some sources of motivation in a Red Pen
Company (or School)?
- In a Blue Pen Company, what kind of language
would you expect to see on motivational posters?
- What experiences have you had with organizational
justice?
Gipsie B. Ranney has been an international consultant to
organizations on management, quality improvement and statistical methodology
for more than twenty years. She was a
member of the faculty of the Department of Statistics at the University of Tennessee,
Knoxville for
fifteen years. She served as Director of
Statistical Methodology for General Motors Powertrain Group from 1988 to 1992. She was Professor of Management in the Massey Graduate School of Business Administration at Belmont University The American Society for
Quality awarded her the Deming Medal for 1996, "for outstanding contribution in
advancing the theory and practice of statistical thinking to the management of
enterprises worldwide."
Contact Gipsie Ranney by email with feedback on her Thought Piece.
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OD Details
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 - Thursday, October 18th - 12:00-1:00pm
2 - Thursday, October 18th- 1:00-2:00pm
3 - Friday, October 19th - 12:00-1:00pm
4 - Friday, October 19th - 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: Farewells and Close
Please reply to this note by noon Pacific Time on
Wednesday, October 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...
PARTICIPANT 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.
As always, please forward this announcement
to anyone we missed who would also like to
participate.
Regards...
Bill
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Future OD Dates
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
November 15-16 or 19-20: TBD
December 13-14, Steve Haines
January 24-25, Russell Ackoff
February 28-29, Sheldon Rovin
March 27-28, TBD
April 24-25, TBD
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Systems Thinking Newsletter
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 December 2002 through September 2007, 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 and Workshops
The following in-house "Thinking Roadmap" seminars and workshops are open to
employees of Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, as well as suppliers, customers,
family members, and "Members of the Community." "Members
of the community" are individuals who are involved full or part time, or in a
volunteer capacity, in community related work.
This schedules below include the next available offerings for the listed seminars in Canoga Park, California.
Contact
Bill Bellows to request additonal information.
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Enterprise Thinking
 Registration Fee - there is NO fee to attend
Format - two 4.5-hour sessions over two days, offered as an in-person event
Presented by: Bill Bellows
Schedule for Enterprise Thinking classes in Canoga Park, CA for Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne
Class #CP-565
Part 1 - 22-Oct-07 - 12:30-5:00pm
Part 2 - 23-Oct-07 - 7:00-11:30am
Class #CP-567
Part 1 - 15-Nov-07 - 7:00-11:30am
Part 2 - 16-Nov-07 - 7:00-11:30am
Class #CP-569
Part 1 - 13-Dec-07 - 7:00-11:30am
Part 2 - 14-Dec-07 - 7:00-11:30am
Class #CP-571
Part 1 - 17-Jan-08 - 7:00-11:30am
Part 2 - 18-Jan-08 - 7:00-11:30am
Register to attend Enterprise Thinking
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Six Thinking Hats
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, offered as an in-person event
Presented by: Tim Higgins
Schedule for Six Thinking Hats classes in
Canoga
Park, CA for Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne
Class #CP-51
23-Oct-07 - 1:00-5:00pm
24-Oct-07 - 1:00-5:00pm
Register to attend Six Thinking Hats
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Managing Variation as a System
 Registration Fee - there is NO fee to attend.
Pre-requisite - there are NO pre-requisites.
Format - three 3-hour sessions over three
days, offered as an in-person event
Presented by: Joe Onstott
Schedule for Managing Variation as a System
classes in Canoga Park, CA for Pratt & Whitney
Rocketdyne
Class #MVS-90
22-Oct-07, 24-Oct-07, 25-Oct-07,
from 8:00-11:00am each day
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Kepner-Tregoe Problem Solving and Decision Making
 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, offered as an in-person event
Presented by: Tim Higgins
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
New Dates TBD
Register to attend Kepner-Tregoe
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The New Economics Study Session
Registration Fee - there is NO fee to attend.
Pre-requisite - there are NO pre-requisites.
Format - seven 2-hour sessions over three
weeks, offered as a teleconference event
Presented by: Tim Higgins
Schedule for The New Economics Study
Session
classes in Canoga Park, CA for Pratt & Whitney
Rocketdyne
The next session starts on Wednesday, November 28th and continues for 7 consecutive Mondays and Wednesdays in a 3-5pm Pacific Time format.
Register now for this session or to receive announcements for the first TNE Study Session in 2008
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PWR's Enterprise Thinking Network
First Annual Thinking Roadmap Week - October 22-26
Plans are underway for a week of Thinking Roadmap seminars in October, hosted by Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne in Canoga Park, California, and culminating in a the Fifth Annual Lecture by Russell Ackoff on Friday, October 26th. Plans for seminars on Monday through Thursday follow below. Mark your calendars and plan your travel now.
Monday am - Managing Variation as a System - Part 1
Monday pm - Enterprise Thinking - Part 1
Tuesday am - Enterprise Thinking - Part 2
Tuesday pm - Six Thinking Hats - Part 1
Wednesday am - Managing Variation as a System - Part 2
Wednesday pm - Six Thinking Hats - Part 2
Thursday am - Managing Variation as a System - Part 3
Thursday pm - OPEN
Friday am - Fifth Annual Lecture by Russell Ackoff
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