Archives of 2013 Ongoing Discussion Conference Calls and Better Thinking About...Webinars

January 21, 2014

Aerojet Rocketdyne's

2013 Ongoing Discussion and

Better Thinking About... Archive

In This Issue

Welcome First-Timers

Meeting Notice Service

Aim and Stats

Now in our fifteenth 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 2014 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.

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!!!

ADDITIONS

DELETIONS

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.

Good morning from the Los Angeles campus of Aerojet Rocketdyne, located in Canoga Park, California, on the western end of the San Fernando Valley.

With new year celebrations and resolutions several weeks behind us, plans are well under way with our InThinking Roadmap efforts to host Ongoing Discussion (OD) conference calls and Better Thinking About...webinars. We'll resume on January 30th and 31st, in our 15th year of operation, when Gipsie Ranney, from Brentwood, Tennessee, will join us for the our first Ongoing Discussion session of 2014. Gipsie will lead us in a conversation on the question of "What World Are We In?" to borrow from an inquiry by Dr. Deming. With the formal invitation coming later this week, you can link here now to register to attend in advance of the announcement. You are also most welcome to register in advance for our first Better Thinking About... (BTA) webinar of 2014 (in our third year of operation) featuring Doug Krug, from Centennial, Colorado, with the focus area of Leadership. Link here to register in advance of the announcement for this session, set for February 13th.

Meanwhile, links to all OD and BTA for 2013 follow below, for easy access to the archives of our announcements, Thought Pieces, audio files, and presentation files. Special thanks once again to our distinguished group of Thought (and Question) Leaders for their contributions to our collective learning.

Looking ahead, here's to a joyous year of thinking together, learning together, and working together. I look forward to your participation.

Cheers...
Bill

Bill Bellows

Associate Fellow and Lead

InThinking Network

Aerojet Rocketdyne

Canoga Park, California

william.bellows@rocket.com

2013 Ongoing Discussion Archives

January 28-29, 2013 - Announcement

Thought Leader: Gipsie Ranney
Thought Piece: Transformation - You Can't Do Just One Thing

File links for the four 1-hour calls follow below;
          Option 1 - Monday, January 28th, from 12-1pm
          Option 2 - Monday, January 28th, from 1-2pm
          Option 3 - Tuesday, January 29th, from 12-1pm

Option 4 - Tuesday, January 29th, from 1-2pm

February 28 - March 1, 2013 - Announcement

Thought Leader: John Pourdehnad
Thought Piece: Integrating Systems Thinking and Design Thinking

File links for two of the four 1-hour calls follow below;

Option 1 - Thursday, February 27th, from 12-1pm -

NOT RECORDED
Option 2 - Thursday, February 27th, from 1-2pm -

NOT RECORDED
Option 3 - Friday, March 1st, from 12-1pm
Option 4 - Friday, March 1st, from 1-2pm

March 28-29, 2013 - Announcement
Thought Leader: Julie Francis
Thought Piece: The Inspiration for Inspiration
File links for the four 1-hour calls follow below;
             Option 1 - Wednesday, March 27th, from 12-1pm
             Option 2 - Wednesday, March 27th, from 1-2pm
             Option 3 - Thursday, March 28th, from 12-1pm
            Option 4 - Thursday, March 28th, from 1-2pm

April 25-26, 2013 - Announcement
Thought Leader: Peter Stonefield
Thought Piece: The Leverage Point at the Heart of Systems Transformation
File links for the four 1-hour calls follow below;
Option 1 - Thursday, April 25th, from 12-1pm
Option 2A - Thursday, April 25th, from 1-2pm,

Option 2B (end)

              Option 3 - Friday, April 26th, from 12-1pm
              Option 4 - Friday, April 26th, from 1-2pm

May 20-21, 2013 - Announcement
Thought Leader: Mike Beck
Thought Piece: On Developing an Operational Definition of People Centric Leadership
File links for the four 1-hour calls follow below;
             Option 1 - Monday, May 20th, from 12-1pm
             Option 2 - Monday, May 20th, from 1-2pm
             Option 3 - Tuesday, May 21st, from 12-1pm
            Option 4 - Tuesday, May 21st, from 1-2pm

June sessions, on July 1-2, 2013 - Announcement
Thought Leader: Lorenzo Fioramanti
Thought Piece: The Most Powerful Number: The Dark Side of GDP
File links for the four 1-hour calls follow below;
              Option 1 - Monday, July 1st - NOT RECORDED
             Option 2 - Monday, July 1st - NOT RECORDED
             Option 3 - Tuesday, July 2nd, from 12-1pm
              Option 4 - Tuesday, July 2nd, from 1-2pm

July sessions, on August 7th and 9th - Announcement
Thought Leader: Ivan Rosenberg
Thought Piece: Reliably Producing Breakthroughs
The calls will be recorded and posted here afterwards.
File links for the four 1-hour calls follow below;
             Option 1 - Wednesday, August 7th, 12-1pm
             Option 2 - Wednesday, August 7th, 1-2pm
             Option 3 - Friday, August 9th, from 12-1pm
              Option 4 - Friday, August 9th, from 1-2pm

August 28-29, 2013 - Announcement

Thought Leader: Mark "Puck" Mykleby
Thought Piece: A National Strategic Narrative
File links for the four 1-hour calls follow below;
Option 1 - Wednesday, August 28th, from 12-1pm
Option 2 - Wednesday, August 28th, from 1-2pm

Option 3 - Thursday, August 29th - NOT RECORDED
Option 4 - Thursday, August 29th - NOT RECORDED

September sessions, on October 4, 2013 - Announcement
Thought Leader: Andrew McKeon
Thought Piece: Thinking About Management from a Climate Change Perspective
File links for the two 1-hour calls follow below;
Option 1 - Friday, October 4th, from 12-1pm
Option 2 - Friday, October 4th, from 1-2pm

October 24-25, 2013 - Announcement
Thought Leader: Marcia Daszko
Thought Piece: Fear Erodes Profits
File links for the four 1-hour calls follow below;
            Option 1 - Thursday, October 24th, from 12-1pm
             Option 2 - Thursday, October 24th, from 1-2pm
            Options 3-4 - Friday, October 25th, from 12-2pm