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4/22 – A Critical Review of Pre-Engagement Organizational Consulting Diagnosis Methods
Todd Hatley Introduction While there’s uncertainty regarding the success rate of organizational change and improvement efforts, many reports show failure rates of 60-70%. Decker and his colleagues (2012) suggest that…
4/22 – Challenges of Transdisciplinary Collaboration: A Conceptual Literature Review
Sue L.T. McGregor The focus of this paper was transdisciplinary collaboration and what is being said in the literature about the challenges of this aspect of transdisciplinarity work. A conceptual…
4/22 – An Integrative Vision: Worldcentric Guardians Using Integrative Dynamics in Our Current Crises
Gerard Bruitzman Many of us understand that humanity is living amidst an unprecedented global meta-crisis, marked by many deep, complexly interrelated, and compounding local, national and global crises: educational, ecological,…
4/22 – A New Approach to Dialog: Teaching the Dialectical Thought Form Framework – Part I: Foundations of Real-World Dialog
Otto Laske If a simple epigram could sum up what is essential to thinking dialectically it should be that it is the art of thinking the coincidence of distinctions and…
4/22 – A New Approach to Dialog: Teaching the Dialectical Thought Form Framework – Part II: Dialoging Tools of Dialectic
Otto Laske Part II: Dialoging Tools of Dialectic Using a Short Table of Thought Forms The reader now realizes that in order to understand the world around it, the thinking…
Otto Laske Part III: Teaching Programs for, and Applications of, Dialogical Dialectic How to Develop a Teaching Program for Dialectical Thinking Teaching dialectical thinking in a world dominated by…
Otto Laske “The major problems in the world (today) are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.” – Gregory Bateson “Logic merely defines…
11/30 – Why We Can’t Wait: Quotes by Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King Jr., Why We Can’t Wait, 1963 “A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution.”…
Jim Ritchie-Dunham and Maureen Metcalf This paper provides a high-level framework for leaders to refine their approach to increasing team effectiveness by leveraging the concept of “room to roam.” Room…
11/30 – Mni Wiconi – Water is life!
Eric Reynolds
With this release we offer the final five articles of 2016. They are: Otto Laske’s How Roy Bhaskar Expanded and Deepened the Notion of Adult Cognitive Development: A Succinct History…