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Aim and Stats
Now in our ninth 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 2008 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, Hungary, India, Iran, Ireland, Japan, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Romania, Russia, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, 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 Sheldon Rovin included 39 partners from across the US (101 have joined in so far in 2008, 342 joined in for all of 2007, 444 partners joined us throughout 2006, and 402 thinking partners joined us throughout 2005).
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Good morning from the west coast home of Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, located in Canoga Park, California, on the western end of the San Fernando Valley in greater Los Angeles.
With Daylight Savings Time (an idea owed to Ben Franklin, although times have changed and savings are being challenged today) upon us now and the Ides of March coming on Saturday, it's time to come together for a few hours of "thinking together." This month's Ongoing Discussion is scheduled for Wednesday, March 19th and Thursday, March 20th, from 12-2pm Pacific Time on both days. Information on this month's Thought Leaders, Bob Dickman and Richard Maxwell, and their topic - The Elements of Persuasion, 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.
(Click here if you are having trouble reading this announcement.)
For those who missed last month's "OD" sessions with Sheldon Rovin, or those who joined in and would like to revisit the conversation, we'll soon (not yet ;-(( ) have the four 1-hour calls posted as mp3 files.
Cheers...
Bill Bellows
Associate Technical Fellow and Lead
Enterprise Thinking Network
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne
Canoga Park, California
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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 Leaders - Bob Dickman and Richard Maxwell
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne's (PWR) Enterprise Thinking Network welcomes Bob Dickman (left) and Richard Maxwell (right) to lead our third Ongoing Discussion of 2008 (and our 99th since January 2000) on March 19th and 20th. We first welcomed them as Thought Leaders in May 2005.
 
"Every great leader is a great storyteller," says Harvard University psychologist Howard Gardner. This sentiment is supported by Bob and Richard, co-authors of The Elements of Persuasion. Their Thought Piece is the first chapter of their lively and useful book. You may also have read, or would like to read, Bob's article a few years ago in "Reflections", the journal of the Society for Organizational Learning (SoL), in which he described then four (now, five, with Awareness added) components of successful stories: Passion, Hero, Antagonist, and Transformation. And some of you may have participated in Bob's Pegasus Systems Thinking in Action workshop a couple of years ago in Boston, which he opened with a wonderful story involving mothers, vodka, revolution, and negotiation. Perhaps we can hope that he'll share this story with us next week, as it was a rich example of the five components.
Richard Maxwell has had a successful career as a screen and television writer, and has produced a number of feature films, working for every major Hollywood studio and many independent producers. Bob is an executive coach who teaches "narrative strategies" as they relate to corporate communication, product design, and branding. He was an actor (Bull Durham) and was for some time a monk at a Zen monastery in Japan. Richard and Bob are friends of the In2:InThinking Network and will present together at the 2008 Forum next month (have you registered yet?).
What are some questions we might bring to this conversation with Richard and Bob? What kind of stories are heard in Red Pen Companies? As a Red Pen Company moves along the continuum, how might the stories change? How might you change the stories to encourage movement along the continuum? What are some (brief) examples of stories that have served you and your customer, colleagues, clients? How does story fit into our daily work? What stories do we tell ourselves? What stories do we long to hear?
Please note that this Ongoing Discussion takes place on a Wednesday and Thursday next week. We hope you can join us for an hour, or more.
Contact Bob and/or Richard by email with any questions you would like to share with them in preparation for the OD sessions.
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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 - Wednesday, March 19th - 12:00-1:00pm
2 - Wednesday, March 19th- 1:00-2:00pm
3 - Thursday, March 20th - 12:00-1:00pm
4 - Thursday, March 20th - 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 Tuesday, March 18th 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(s)
April 24-25, Ariane David
May 28 & 30, Tom Johnson (28 - NEW DATE)
June 26-27, Cyndi Laurin & Craig Morningstar
July 24-25, Thought Leader To Be Determined
August 21-22, Sheila Ronis
Follow this link to find our current list of Thought Leaders for all of 2008, as well as announcements for Thought Leaders in 2005, 2006, and 2007.
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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 February 2008, 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 (PWR), 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.
Background information on PWR's Thinking Roadmap, in addition to seminar and workshop descriptions and upcoming schedules, can be found in a new addition to the In2:InThinking Network website at www.in2in.org/TR/. Links to descriptions for each session are embedded in each title.
The schedule below includes the next available offerings for the listed seminars in Canoga Park, California.
Contact Bill Bellows to request additional information.
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Enterprise Thinking
 Registration Fee - there is NO fee to attend
Prerequisites - there are NO prerequisites
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-575
Part 1 - 20-Mar-08 - 7:00-11:30am
Part 2 - 21-Mar-08 - 7:00-11:30am
Class #CP-577
Part 1 - 21-Apr-08 - 12:30-5:00pm
Part 2 - 22-Apr-08 - 8:00-12:30pm
Class #CP-579
Part 1 - 22-May-08 - 7:00-11:30am
Part 2 - 23-May-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."
Prerequisite - 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
NEW DATES TBD
Register to receive an announcement for the next Six Thinking Hats seminar in 2008
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Managing Variation as a System
 Registration Fee - there is NO fee to attend.
Prerequisite - there are NO prerequisites
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-91
8:00-11:00am for each session below
Part 1 - 12-May-08
Part 2 - 14-May-08
Part 3 - 16-May-08
Class #MVS-92
8:00-11:00am for each session below
Part 1 - 13-Oct-08
Part 2 - 15-Oct-08
Part 3 - 17-Oct-08
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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."
Prerequisite - attended Enterprise Thinking within the past 12 to 14 months
Format - three 8-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 receive an announcement for the first Kepner-Tregoe seminar in 2008
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The New Economics Study Session
 Registration Fee - there is NO fee to attend. A copy of The New Economics is provided to each participant. In addition, this is a toll-free call from the United States and Canada. International participants are welcome to join in as well, provided they do so at their own expense for the conference call.
Prerequisite - there are NO prerequisites
Format - seven 2-hour sessions over three and a half weeks, offered as a teleconference event
Presented by: Tim Higgins
Register now to attend this session or to receive an announcement for the next TNE Study Session in 2008
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