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Aim and Stats
Now in our fourteenth year of operation, the aim of the "OD" and "BTA" sessions is to continue to foster an appreciation of InThinking
within an emerging network that is developing inside Aerojet Rocketdyne and beyond. Dates for future "OD" and "BTA" sessions along with additional "thinking" opportunities for 2013 can be found in this announcement.
OD + BTA Stats
For an update on OD and BTA statistics, this month's invitation is going out to 1900+ partners in the U.S., as well as fellow InThinking partners in Australia, Austria, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Chile, Dubai, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, 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 GenCorp, United Technologies, GM, IBM, General Electric, NASA, Bechtel, Kuwait Energy Company, Philips Electronics, and The Boeing Company.
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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 InThinking Roadmap seminars, workshops, and overviews within Aerojet 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 e-mail 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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Meeting Notice Service - OD and BTA
If you'd like to receive meeting notices on your Microsoft Outlook schedule for upcoming Ongoing Discussion conference calls and Better Thinking About... webinars, reply to Bill Bellows at william.bellows@rocket.com and your name will be added to our meeting notice list. |
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 (or inside) 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 "InThinking 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. Also, please note that the "pound key" in the U.S. (#) translates to the "hash key" in the U.K.
New users of Skype are encouraged to perform a conference call test in advance of the scheduled "InThinking Roadmap" conference call. Contact Bill Bellows to arrange for a test call. |
Additional Reading
Beginning in 2009, a series of articles have been prepared for the Lean Management Journal (LMJ) to share InThinking insights with the Lean community. This month's feature LMJ article, Reflections on the Fabric of the Toyota Production System (released with the permission of the LMJ), was prepared to encourage LMJ readers to think beyond the prevailing explanations of lean and consider the possibility that the fabric of the Toyota Production System is more closely aligned with the usage of ideas borrowed from Genichi Taguchi and W. Edwards Deming than has ever been acknowledged in the lean literature.
Contact Bill Bellows with questions, comments, or observations about this article.
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Good morning from the Los Angeles campus of Aerojet Rocketdyne, located in Canoga Park, California, on the western end of the San Fernando Valley.
Aerojet Rocketdyne's InThinking Network welcomes Retired Colonel Mark "Puck" Mykleby, from Beaufort, South Carolina, to lead our eighth Ongoing Discussion conference call of 2013 on August 28th and 29th (and our 164th session since we began in January 2000). As for a topic, Mark has selected the 2011 paper he co-authored with Navy Captain Wayne Porter, "A National Strategic Narrative", in his first time with us as a Thought Leader. Mark and Wayne prepared this narrative while they reported to Admiral Mike Mullen, then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon. This report has been highlighted in Wikipedia, as well as covered by the New York Times. Mark has also been featured in a column by Thomas Friedman, after the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, when Mark admitted his responsibility, due to reflections on the unsustainable way he lives his life.
I was introduced to Mark by Dick Steele, co-chair of this fall's Deming Institute Conference, to be held on October 18-20 at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. This year's title is "Out of the Crisis - New Thinking for a Sustainable World." In a partnership with Aerojet Rocketdyne, we are featuring two conference speakers as Ongoing Discussion Thought Leaders this year, Mark this month and Andrew McKeon in September.
The 10-page Thought Piece, which includes a 4-page forward, ends with this clarification;
The views expressed herein are their own and do not reflect the official policy or position of the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Marine Corps, the Department of Defense or the U.S. government.
and opens with this explanation,
This Strategic Narrative is intended to frame our National policy decisions regarding investment, security, economic development, the environment, and engagement well into this century. It is built upon the premise that we must sustain our enduring national interests - prosperity and security - within a "strategic ecosystem," at home and abroad; that in complexity and uncertainty, there are opportunities and hope, as well as challenges, risk, and threat. The primary approach this Strategic Narrative advocates to achieve sustainable prosperity and security, is through the application of credible influence and strength, the pursuit of fair competition, acknowledgement of interdependencies and converging interests, and adaptation to complex, dynamic systems - all bounded by our national values.
The Thought Piece is divided into the following 10 areas of focus:
- From Containment to Sustainment: Control to Credible Influence
- Our Values and Enduring National Interests
- Our Three Investment Priorities
- Fair Competition and Deterrence
- A Strategic Ecology
- Closing the "Say-do" Gap - the Negative Aspects of "Binning"
- Credible Influence in a Strategic Ecosystem
- Opportunities beyond Threat and Risk
- A National Prosperity and Security Act
- A Beacon of Hope, a Pathway of Promise
Link here to download Mark's Thought Piece and learn more about his broad views on sustainability, inspired by the ability to see far beyond the limits of a relentless root cause of anything. Link here to register to attend.
Looking ahead, our September "Better Thinking About..." webinar will feature Gipsie Ranney on September 12th on the topic of "Better Thinking About Causes," with a focus on innovation.
Link here to register to attend in advance of the announcement.
And, further ahead, mark your calendars to join us on September 26th and 27th, when Andrew McKeon will join us for the September Ongoing Discussion to lead a conversation on sustainability.
Link here to register to attend in advance of the announcement.
Biography
Mark "Puck" Mykleby was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps following his graduation from the United States Naval Academy in 1987. He earned a Masters of Military Studies from the Marine Corps Command and Staff College in 1999. In May 2007, he graduated from the Air War College with distinction and earned a Masters of Strategic Studies. Mark was designated a naval aviator in April 1990 and as a qualified F/A-18 pilot in December1990. From January 1991 to May 2006, he served in five fleet fighter squadrons and performed numerous operational squadron billets to include Director of Safety and Standardization, Pilot Training Officer, Aircraft Maintenance Officer, Operations Officer, Executive Officer, and Commanding Officer.
Mark's staff experience includes serving as the George Washington Battle Group liaison officer to Joint Task Force-Southwest Asia (Eskan Village, Saudi Arabia) in 1997, serving as a Marine Air Ground Task Force (MAGTF) Staff Training Program (MSTP) instructor from 1999-2001, and serving as the Harry S. Truman Battle Group liaison officer to the NATO Combined Air Operations Center Five (CAOC-5) head-quarters (Poggio Renautico, Italy) in January 2003. In June 2007, Mark was assigned to the US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) where he developed strategy for Special Operations Forces.
Mark is now a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, where he continues his work on grand strategy and sustainability.
Contact Mark by e-mail at mykleby@newamerica.net with any questions or comments you would like to share with him in preparation for this OD conference call.
Cheers...
Bill Bellows
Associate Fellow & Lead
InThinking Network
Aerojet Rocketdyne
Canoga Park, California
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August 28th - 29th OD Details
Please join us for one or all of this month's first series of OD conference calls. As always, you are invited to participate for as long, or as short, as you can in one or more of these sessions. Note that the conversations vary from session to session, due to a variety of causes, such as who participates and what questions are asked. This diversity is captured every month, as the calls are recorded and shared with all who register to attend.
Option - Date/Time (Pacific Time);
1 - Wednesday, August 28th - 12:00-1:00pm
2 - Wednesday, August 28th - 1:00-2:00pm
3 - Thursday, August 29th - 12:00-1:00pm 4 - Thursday, August 29th - 1:00-2:00pm
The agenda for each option will be:
Timing: Topic
Opening 15 minutes: Call in and Introductions
Next 40 minutes: Ongoing Discussion
Last 5 minutes: Farewells and Close
Please reply to this note by noon, Pacific Time on Tuesday, August 27th 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
Telecon lines (including a pass code and a security code) have been arranged for those who cannot join us in a conference room at our Canoga Park facility (located at 8900 DeSoto Avenue) 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...
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Future Ongoing Discussion Conference Calls
Mark your calendars - future Ongoing Discussion conference calls will be held on the following dates (subject to slight changes), from 12-1pm and 1-2pm Pacific Time.
Dates, Thought Leader(s), and Topic:
(link on each session to register)
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Future Better Thinking About... Webinars
Mark your calendars - future Better Thinking About... webinars will be held on the following dates, from 11:30-1pm Pacific Time. Details for how to participate in this webinar series are provided upon registering using the participant survey for each event.
Date, Thought Leader, and Topic:
(link on each session to register)
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InThinking Together Seminar
Description: This seminar explores the philosophies of a variety of management theorist, including but not limited to Russell Ackoff, W. Edwards Deming, Edward de Bono, Tom Johnson, and Genichi Taguchi, among many others; as they apply to the management of organizational resources, including ideas, innovation, knowledge, money, equipment, and space. Among the topics of discussion will be the concepts of "better thinking about thinking" (InThinking) and Purposeful Resource Management as well as Purposeful Resource Leadership. The seminar will introduce you to these ideas through a series of questions that are specially selected to create awareness of a new approach to working together, learning together, and thinking together.
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 InThinking Together classes in Canoga Park, CA for Aerojet Rocketdyne
Class #CP-2013-08
Part 1 - 26-Aug - 8:00-12:30pm
Part 2 - 27-Aug - 8:00-12:30pm
Class #CP-2013-09
Part 1 - 26-Sep - 7:00-11:30am
Part 2 - 27-Sep - 7:00-11:30am
Class #CP-2013-10
Part 1 - 21-Oct - 8:00-12:30pm
Part 2 - 22-Oct - 8:00-12:30pm
Class #CP-2013-11
Part 1 - 21-Nov - 8:00-12:30pm
Part 2 - 22-Nov - 8:00-12:30pm
Class #CP-2013-12
Part 1 - 16-Dec - 7:00-11:30am
Part 2 - 17-Dec - 7:00-11:30am
Register to attend InThinking Together
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