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Aim and Stats
Now in our tenth 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 2009 can be found in this announcement.
OD Stats
For an update on OD statistics, this month's invitation is going out to 5000+ partners in the U.S., as well as fellow inthinking partners in Australia, Austria, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Dubai, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, 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, Philips Electronics, and The Boeing Company. Among this list of invitees, participation August's OD conference call with Ann Herrmann-Nehdi(now available for download in mp3 format) included 39 partners from across the US and UK (309 have joined us so far in 2009, 394 partners joined us in 2008, with 342 in 2007, 444 in 2006, and 402 2005...ah, yes, variation exists).
And, yes, Grace, the diffusion process of connecting thought leaders continuuues... |
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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 the health care debate gaining more and more presidential air time in the U.S., Michael Pollan, professor of journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, has recently contibuted an Op-Ed piece to the New York Times on the topic of "Big Food vs. Big Insurance." In it, he suggests that the health care debate be expanded to include a focus on the American way of eating." Such systemic thinking is near and dear to many of us as we come together for a few hours of "thinking together;" time that will be well invested. This month we feature Dave Flanigan and Tracy Huston as our Thought Leaders on Friday, September 25th and Monday, September 28th. Details follows below.
Cheers...
Bill Bellows
Associate 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, 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 - Dave Flanigan and Tracy Huston
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne's Enterprise Thinking Network welcomes Dave Flanigan (upper right) and Tracy Huston (lower left), co-founders of Menlo Lab, to lead our ninth Ongoing Discussion of 2009 on September 25th and 28th (and our 117th session since we began in 2000). They have selected has selected "Pathways to Change" as our topic this month.
Please join your fellow "OD participants" for a vigorous and provocative conversation with the founders of the Menlo Lab, Tracy Huston and Dave Flanigan. This month the Ongoing Discussion will take place on a Friday and a Monday, September 25th and 28th. Please make a note of this slightly different schedule. Their Thought Piece can be found at this link.
Tracy and Dave are old friends of PWR's Enterprise Thinking Network as well as the In2:InThinking Network. Tracy hosted an Ongoing Discussion in September 2007 on the topic of Whole System Social Innovation, a favorite topic of hers. She has also presented at the In2:InThinking Network's 2007 Forum and appeared with Dave at the 2009 Forum.
Menlo Lab is a global network of leaders from both the public and private sectors dedicated to the cultivation of economic, ecological, and social well-being-in our institutions, and our communities. As a self-organizing network, participants work with leaders from business, education, social services agencies, government, and civic groups to develop their individual and collective capacities to create the futures they want.
Menlo Lab was formed in January 2007 out of the shared intention to co-create the social innovations needed to address persisting challenges in complex systems. Participants in the Menlo network began to see a set of change principles that applied equally to all projects, and adopted them as a framework to guide them in their approaches to change. The principles - Whole System, Inside-Out, Real Work, Sustainability - are described in the Thought Piece.
At the end of their Thought Piece, Tracy and David offer a selection of provocative questions to help us think about how we create our future, and the role of leaders in this work. Please reflect on these questions after you read the Thought Piece and before you join the call on Friday or Monday. Here's two to get you started:
When you are most successful in addressing your work challenges, what is it in you that allows you to prevail?
What is required to surface individual and collective wisdom to meet a challenge?
Tracy brings over 20 years experience in supporting global corporations, educators, non-profits, and community leaders in affecting whole system change. She works with top management at Nissan in strategy and leadership development, and co-leads the Menlo Lab work locally and globally. She is the author of numerous articles on the personal, relational, and structural dimensions of change, and wrote the book Inside-Out: Stories and Methods for Generating the Collective Will to Create the Future We Want.
David has 33 years of global business experience in the automotive and financial service sectors. Dave was President of Ford Credit International where he led 9,500 employees and developed highly profitable financial services businesses in 38 countries. After retiring from Ford, he now employs his leadership and business transformation experience to coach other leaders in building high-performing teams and creating whole-system, cross-sector change. He is Chairman of the Detroit Institute for Children, serves as Trustee of the Society for Organizational Learning, and actively supports projects throughout the global Menlo network.
Contact Dave and Tracy by email at dcf@pentel.net and tracyhuston@cc.rr.com, respectively, with any questions you would like to share with them in preparation for their OD session with us. |
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 - Friday, September 25th - 12:00-1:00pm
2 - Friday, September 25th - 1:00-2:00pm
3 - Monday, September 28th - 12:00-1:00pm
4 - Monday, September 28th - 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 Thursday, September 24th 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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International Participants
Our conference call sessions are toll-free within the U.S. and Canada. Several international participants have been able to connect toll-free using Skype for a VOIP connection, which we now recommend to others calling in from outside the U.S. and Canada.
First, you'll need to establish a Skype account at www.skype.com. Once Skype is set up and functioning correctly the only thing that is different when connecting with our "Thinking Roadmap" conference call sessions ("OD" or "The New Economics Study Sessions") is the use of a pass code and security code. For our "OD" sessions, these numbers are provided once the "participant survey" is completed. For the "The New Economics Study Sessions," these numbers are provided in an email from Tim Higgins, who hosts these calls. In either case, when prompted by Skype to enter these codes, use the keyboard not voice option and be sure to turn off the computer's microphone, otherwise the numeric keys don't function. If the microphone is left on when the codes are entered, Skype's automated operator will reply with "number not recognized," as no number has been transmitted.
New users of Skype are encouraged to perform a conference call test in advance of the scheduled "Thinking Roadmap" conference call. Contact Bill Bellows to arrange for a test call. |
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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):
Follow this link to find our current list of Thought Leaders for all of 2009, as well as announcements for Thought Leaders in 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008. |
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Systems Thinking Newsletter
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 August 2009, 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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News from our Thought Leaders, both past and future...
David Langford
Our October 2009 Thought Leader will be appearing as a keynote speaker at the annual W. Edwards Deming Conference, set for October 11-13 at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. David will speak on the topic "Develop Joy in Learning and Leading." He will be joined in a keynote role by Mike Tveite and Andrew McKeon. Mike will present "A Personal Journey of Discovery about Dr. Deming's Teachings". He assisted Dr. Deming with numerous four-day conferences and accompanied him on consulting visits. Andrew, who works with companies to make sustainability an organizing principle of their operations, will look at the effect of climate change and sustainability on business systems using the prism of Deming's System of Profound Knowledge.
Lew Rhodes
Since his appearance with us, our October 2008 Thought Leader has been busy designing his website (www.sabusense.com) and adding content on a regular basis. If you are "Having trouble making sense of schools?...trying to connect-the-dots...get-out-of-the-box to find a different Big Picture?," Find out if this site can help you THINK DIFFERENTLY about what you SEE PEOPLE DOING every day in schools.
He invites our readers to visit his site, but also offers a warning, "THIS SITE MIGHT MAKE YOUR HEAD HURT."Clare Crawford-Mason Our June 2006 Thought Leader has been referenced in an interesting article in the Huffington Post about her How Hospitals Heal Themselves documentary, with reference to Dr. Deming as well. Clare extends an invitation to read the article, comment on it, and "send it on to your people and state and national representatives and whomever might like a new and possible perspective on the healthcare debate." She also reminds us that Dr. Deming said, "Survival is optional. No one has to change."
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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 the titles below.
The schedule below includes the next available offerings for the listed seminars in Canoga Park, California. Contact Bill Bellows to request additonal information.
Note that the dates listed below are subject to change. Follow this link to find the latest updates to our schedule, including the full schedule for 2009. All times listed are Pacific Time. |
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-611
Part 1 - 24-Sep-09 - 7:00-11:30am
Part 2 - 25-Sep-09 - 7:00-11:30am
Class #CP-613
Part 1 - 21-Oct-09 - 7:00-11:30am
Part 2 - 22-Oct-09 - 7:00-11:30am
Class #CP-615
Part 1 - 16-Nov-09 - 7:00-11:30am
Part 2 - 17-Nov-09 - 7:00-11:30am
Class #CP-617
Part 1 - 17-Dec-09 - 7:00-11:30am
Part 2 - 18-Dec-09 - 7:00-11:30am
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Six Thinking Hats
Registration Fee - there is no fee for PWR employees to attend. For visitors, we charge $165, payable to Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne.
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
Class #CP-56
6-Oct-09 - 8:00-5:00pm
Register to attend Six Thinking Hats
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Lateral Thinking
 Registration Fee - there is no fee for PWR employees to attend. For visitors, we charge $120, payable to Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne.
Prerequisite - attended Enterprise Thinking within the past 12 to 14 months
Format - two 8-hour sessions, offered as an in-person event
Presented by: Tim Higgins
Schedule for Lateral Thinking classes in Canoga Park, CA for Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne
Class #CP-22
8-Dec-09 - 8:00-5:00pm
9-Dec-09 - 8:00-5:00pm
Register to attend Lateral Thinking
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Managing Variation as a System
 Registration Fee - there is NO fee for employees to attend. Visitors are asked to bring a copy of the course textbook (Donald Wheeler's Understanding Variation), which can be purchased online for as low as $25. Follow this link to Amazon for one purchase option.
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 #CP-68
30-Nov-09 - 8:00-11:00am
2-Dec-09 - 8:00-11:00am
4-Dec-09 - 8:00-11:00am
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Kepner-Tregoe Problem Solving and Decision Making
 Registration Fee - there is no fee for PWR employees to attend. For visitors, we charge $330, payable to Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne.
Prerequisite - 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
Next Class Dates To Be Determined
Contact Tim Higgins to receive class updates
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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
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