Leadership, Abundance and Complexity in Human Systems

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Bundle Bud

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"In 1993 or 1994, a friend handed me Margaret Wheatley's book, Leadership and the New Science. Although I loved learning about quantum physics, I was at that time very into W. Edwards Deming and Total Quality Management (TQM). I handed back the book and said it seemed to have nothing to do with my work (oops!). In 1998 I was on a trip with my son to San Francisco. At the wonderful Exploratorium science museum, they had a featured exhibit on "turbulent landscapes." that included many hands-on displays about complex and chaotic forces in nature. Playing with a large pendulum with a magnet on its tip, and other magnets on the table below it (that could be set to attract or repel the pendulum) I had a literally life-changing moment. In the wild oscillations of the pendulum, I knew the laws of physics were still working. But I saw not just pendulums and magnets, but a physical model of how people interact with ideas and with each other. I was hooked. Applying ideas from complexity science to the work of dialogue, change, and leadership, has been my core focus for more than ten years. I am an avid associate of the Plexus Institute, which is where I met Valdis Krebs, CEO Orgnet.com and June Holley,  thought leader in Network Weaving."

 

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Making Change One Conversation At A Time

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Star Composite

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Bruce Waltuck, thought leader in Leadership and Change, talks about how he became interested in supporting groups of people making better decisions together.

"I'm a child of the 1960s. I worked on peer councils after race riots in my high school following the death of Dr. Martin Luther King. In college, I helped establish the first student-faculty governance committee at Syracuse University in 1970. Later, my first boss at the U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL) encouraged us to work "smarter not harder" (not a cliche back in 1980). I became a fan and advocate of Total Quality Management (TQM)  and of Dr. W. Edwards Deming by the late 1980s, and got the chance of a lifetime, to co-create and lead the USDOL's Employee Involvement and Quality Improvement system in 1989. This was a labor-management partnership whose collaborative governance structure later became the basis for articles and stuff I wrote for journals and books. In 1990-1991 I was a negotiator of the DOL's original interest-based collective bargaining agreement - the first of its kind in the U.S. Federal sector. And in 1995-2000, I created and led a new public-private partnership to help employees in the health care industry."

Bruce Waltuck earned an M.A. in Complexity, Chaos, and Creativity (yes, really); is an Associate at the Plexus Institute and a Member of the New Jersey Association of Professional Mediators.

   

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Integral Futuring: A Process Approach To Knowledge Advance

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The Big Bang

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Bruce LaDuke, Question Scientist, Integral Futurist, and Managing Director of Instant Innovation, LLC in Indianapolis, Indiana talks about Integral Futuring and the three dynamics that contribute to the current state of any society or social division: 

  • Knowledge Advance - The Center is Knowledge Creation,
  • Social Context - The Center is the Balance of Interests and Economy (Includes education, industry, and economic development) and,
  • The Center is Supply and Demand. It is the combination of these three dynamics that creates the national or international social state.

Integral Futuring is a human-based process driven approach to future society. It offers an important alternate paradigm to traditional machine-based artificial intelligence philosophy.

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Bruce LaDuke 12-31-08 Interview

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How Futuring Helps Us To Know What To Do Now

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Double Doors

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Bruce LaDuke, Question Scientist, Integral Futurist, and Managing Director, Instant Innovation, LLC, provides an introduction to the cycle of knowledge creation and it's connection to enterprise development.

This overview addresses how Futuring and Knowledge Advance help us act smarter and see new opportunities. 

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