Monthly Archive for: ‘3 years ago’

Theory E²: Working with Entrepreneurs in Closely-Held Enterprises XI. The Acts of Appreciation
In this essay I identify several ways in which this transformation can take place in a closely=held enterprise through specific acts of appreciation.

Pathways to Sleep: I-E. From Health to Sleep–Time Zone Challenges
There is the need for our body to adjust to a time zone change. Even the one-hour shift from standard to daylight savings time can produce sleep-related problems.

COLLABORATIVE INNOVATION AND THE OVERVIEW EFFECT
Charles E. Smith and Richard H. Whitehurst “We Only Do Energy” WARNING Until one is committed, there …

Collaborative Innovation: A Journal
We are Thought Leaders studying and managing interaction and collaboration of multiple partners to deliver new solutions and new futures …

Issue One: Collaborative Innovation–The Most Important Questions for Our Time
In this first Journal issue, I’m especially interested in addressing Buckminster Fuller’s question from which he created his extraordinary inventive technical and social inventions and projects.

Four Assumptive Worlds of Psychopathy V: The World of Mental Illness
We observe an important shift from the social/political system in our third assumptive world to the medical system in the fourth world.

Organizational Consultation: An Appreciative Approach III Four Models of Consultation
Those practitioners who (1) help to bring about a specific change in the client system, (2) are advocates of, but do not initiate, a specific change in the system, (3) advocate no specific change but begin with the assumption that change in the system is required, and (4) neither advocate a specific change nor begin with the assumption that the system needs to change.

Leading into the Future VI: Postmodern Perspectives on Organizational Life
We must discard that which is superficially interesting but transitory and determine that which we individually and collectively should attend to at any point in time.

The New Johari Window #6: The Postmodern Self
Ironically—and poignantly—the Johari Window, as a guidebook for this transitional period—is still relevant today.

Collaborative Innovation: What Turns It Off And What Turns It On
Rather than exploring how we can add the qualities of collaboration and innovation to our experience, this paper explores why we are not accessing these qualities as a natural strategy.