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Aim and Stats Now in our sixteenth year of operation for our "OD" sessions and the fourth year for our "TTA" sessions (Thinking Together About...), the aim of both 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 "TTA" sessions along with additional "thinking" opportunities for 2015 can be found in this announcement. OD + TTA Stats
For an update on OD and TTA statistics, this month's invitation is going out to 2,000+ 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 TTA If you'd like to receive meeting notices on your Microsoft Outlook schedule for upcoming Ongoing Discussion conference calls and Thinking Together 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 Thanks for your interest in our "Ongoing Discussion" conference calls for June, which featured Tom Smith on June 25th and 26th on the topic of "A Personal Development Strategy for Safety ." Special thanks once again to Tom for providing us with his "Thought Leadership" in this exploration.
Reach Tom at tsmith@mocalinc.com should you wish to continue to explore your additional comments, questions, and/or observations with him. Thanks to those who could join us and regrets for those who could not. For both groups, and those you would like to share with, I've posted the announcement, along with a pdf version of Tom's Thought Piece, plus the audio files of these sessions, at the links below; References:
Book - Perfect Pitch: The Art of Selling Ideas and Winning New Business, by Jon Steel
Article: R.S. Dorney and P. Wagner McLellan, "The Urban Ecosystem: Its Spatial Structure, Its Scale Relationships and its Subsystem Attributes" Environments, Vol 16, No. 1, 1984. pg. 9-20.
Enjoy! Looking ahead, our next event is the July "Thinking Together About..." webinar, with a focus on Positional and Non-Positional Thinking, set for the 16th, with Ariane David, from Woodland Hills, California, as our Thought Leader. Link here to register, with the formal announcement to follow next week. Looking ahead, our next Ongoing Discussion is set for July 30th and 31st, with David Auda, from Hagerstown, Maryland, as our Thought Leader. David's topic will be "Decision Governance - Thought, Meta Cognition, and Emotional Sabotage." Link here to register in advance of the announcement, coming in mid-July.
Best regards... Associate Fellow and Lead InThinking Network Aerojet Rocketdyne Canoga Park, California |
| 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.
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Future Thinking Together About... Webinars
Mark your calendars - future Thinking Together About... (formerly 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.
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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
Class #CP-2015-07 - Aerojet Rocketdyne, Canoga Park
Part 1 - 30-Jul - 7:00-11:30am Part 2 - 31-Jul - 7:00-11:30am
Class #CP-2015-08 - Aerojet Rocketdyne, Canoga Park
Part 1 - 27-Aug - 7:00-11:30am Part 2 - 28-Aug - 7:00-11:30am
Class #CP-2015-09 - Aerojet Rocketdyne, Canoga Park
Part 1 - 24-Sep - 7:00-11:30am Part 2 - 25-Sep - 7:00-11:30am
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The New Economics Study Session Description: A group of participants assembles, some in-person and some via teleconference, for this 14-hour series. Participants discuss W. Edwards Deming's last book, The New Economics, in which he introduced his concept of a "System of Profound Knowledge." The group reads specified chapters before each session and discusses the meaning and application of the ideas, as well as personal reactions to the ideas. Supplemental reading material become part of the conversations, as do reactions to video tapes of Dr. Deming.
Registration Fee: there is NO fee to attend. 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. Aerojet Rocketdyne attendees will be given copies of The New Economics. Non-Aerojet Rocketdyne attendees can purchase copies on Amazon at this link, with used copies selling for $15 and Kindle copies available for $15.95.
Prerequisite: there are NO prerequisites
Format: seven 2-hour sessions over three and a half weeks, presented as a teleconference event
Presented by: Tim Higgins Schedule for The New Economics Study Session Class #CP-2015-03 Starting on 14-Sep, seven sessions on Mondays and Wednesdays, from 3:00-5:00pm (ending on 5-Oct) Register to attend the TNE Study Session |
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