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PlexusCalls: Communities and Workplaces that Work for All

Jun 20 2008

Peter Block is an author, consultant and citizen of Cincinnati Ohio. His work is about empowerment. Stewardship, accountability and reconciliation. His books include Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used; Stewardship, Choosing Service Over Self Interest, and The Empowered Manager: Positive Political Sills at Work. He also wrote The Answer to How is Yes, and his newest book, Community: The Structure of Belonging, was due in bookstores in May. He is a partner in Designed Learning, a training company that offers workshops designed to build the skills described in his books. He serves on the board of directors of Cincinnati Classical Public Radio, and is the first Distinguished Consultant-in-Residence at Xavier University. To listen to this call click here:

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PlexusCalls: Complexity and the Credit Crunch

Jun 13 2008

This spring is the first anniversary of what has come to be known as the credit crunch. Many executives of venerable financial institutions were taken by surprise, as were political leaders and pundits. To listen to this call click here:

The Simplicity of the Complexity of the Credit Crunch Guests: Jules Muis, Steven Shafarman, and Sharon Benjamin This spring is the first anniversary of what has come to be known as the credit crunch. Many executives of venerable financial institutions were taken by surprise, as were political leaders and pundits. The damage is still unfolding and vast numbers of people are losing their homes. What happened, and where were the regulators and gatekeepers? Jules Muis has some philosophical thoughts. The Dutch Tulip Bulb mania in the 1600s, the US Savings and Loan debacle in the early 1980s, the East Asian melt-down and the dot.com crises in the 1990s, he suggests, have one thing in common. He calls it “our ability and persistence in pulling the wool over our own and each other’s eyes.” And, he asks, “Do we, will we, ever learn?” Join this provocative call to learn more. Jules Muis is a Dutch citizen and qualified Registered Accountant (a Dutch CPA) who lives in the United States. He has worked with numerous national and international organizations, with a focus on issues of good governance, risk management, and change management practices in the public and private sectors. He has presented and written extensively on these issues, and worked as a consultant for organizations that include the United Nations, the World Bank, the European Union and various institutions and organizations involved in accountancy. From 1995 to 2000, Mr. Muis served as vice president and controller of the World Bank, playing a leading role in good governance-inspired internal and external changer initiatives that followed a financial scandal in 1994. From 2001 to 2004 he served as the first director-general and chief internal auditor of the European Commission, where he helped lay the groundwork for building a new, independent internal audit Directorate General for the Commission. He has also chaired the Audit Committee of the International Baccalaureate Organization, headquartered in Geneva, and has provided oversight and guidance in introducing mature risk management to this fast growing global organization. Steven Shafarman has been working for many years as an independent scholar, applying complexity and system science to understand, first, how young children learn to walk, talk, and make sense of the world, and, second, how that process might provide insight into business organizations, other large-scale systems, and society as a whole. As young children learn to walk, they outgrow crawling, and Steven suggests that we can collectively "outgrow" homelessness, racism, global warming, and war. He is the author of a newly published book, Peaceful, Positive Revolution: Economic Security for Every American and is launching a nonprofit organization to promote the proposed "Citizen Policies." Sharon Benjamin is principal of Alchemy, a Washington DC based management consulting practice. She is a seasoned organizational executive who has served as a CEO and directed institutional development and finance. Her positions have included Vice President for Marketing for the-Rails to-Trails Conservancy in DC and Director for Major Gifts for the Union of Concerned Scientists in Cambridge MA. She earned her doctorate in organizational behavior from the Union Institute and University in Cincinnati OH, where she has co-taught three leadership seminars. .
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PlexusCalls: Positive Organizational Scholarship

Jun 6 2008

Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS) is concerned with the study of positive outcomes, processes, and attributes of organizations and their members. The focus on positive phenomena includes community psychology, humanistic organizational behavior, organizational development, pro-social motivation and citizenship behavior and corporate responsibility. Scholarship provides a theoretical framework for why the positive processes succeed. To listen to this call click here:To listen to this call click here:

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PlexusCalls: Infection Control in Companion Animal Hospitals-Guests Shelley Rankin, Michelle Traverse and Michael Monaghan

Apr 18 2008

Dr. Shelley Rankin is chief of clinical microbiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, where she also teaches microbiology. Michelle Traverse is a certified veterinary technician who in 2006 became the first-ever infection control coodinator at the University of Pennsylvania Matthew J. Ryan Veterinary Hospital. To listen to this call click here:

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PlexusCalls: Complex Systems Leadership Theory: Guests- Jeffrey Goldstein, James Hazy, Benyamin Lichtenstein, and Liz Rykert

Apr 11 2008

Drs. Hazy, Goldstein and Lichtenstein will discuss the new book they edited, Complex Systems Leadership Theory: New Perspectives from Complexity Science on Social and Organizational Effectiveness.Jim Hazy, PhD, has more than 25 years of senior executive experience. He and Jeffrey Goldstein, PhD, teach at Adelphi University School of Business. Benyamin Lichtenstein, PhD, is also a widely published author and business scholar. They will be joined by Liz Rykert, the president of Meta Strategies, a Canadian consulting firm devoted to helping charitable, non-profit, and public organizations use the Internet and develop innovative web-based capabilities. To listen to this call click here:

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PlexusCalls: Social Entrepreneurship and Complexity

Mar 21 2008

Can the principles of entrepreneurship, when understood and enacted within a complexity paradigm, bring about lasting and positive social change? Three scholars who have expertise and experience in complexity science, social entrepreneurship, social innovation and leadership research will explore this intriguing possibility in Friday’s PlexusCalls discussion. To listen to this call click here:

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PlexusCalls: Collaborative Art and Unpredictable Beauty: Guests-- Artists Pam Lindberg and Karen Neems

Mar 7 2008

When artists collaborate, their effort becomes part of a larger creative force, and what emerges may be unexpected, unpredictable and different from what any individual artist might have created. The pieces in 12=ONE, an exhibit at the Flinn Gallery in Greenwich, CT, are “a collaboration of concepts” by 12 artists who applied their imaginations in their own work and in their responses to the vision of their colleagues. Pam Lindberg and Karen Neems are two of the artists who collaborated in the creation of the 12=ONE exhibit, which is on display through March 13. To listen to this call click here:

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PlexusCalls: Networking, ancient and modern

Feb 22 2008

Scott C. Hammond, PhD, is an Assistant Academic Vice President and Associate Professor of Business Management in the School of Business at Utah Valley State University. He is internationally known for his work in complex problem solving processes, dialogue and cross-cultural communication. To listen to this call click here:

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PlexusCalls: Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria, Guests John Stelling and Jon Lloyd

Feb 15 2008

Two physicians with indepth knowledge of antiobiotic resistant bacteria will explore in conversation the reasons behind the growing epidemic of infections caused by these bacteria and what healthcare organizations can do to stem transmissions. Special attention will be given to MRSA. To listen to this call click here:

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PlexusCalls: Wonkosphere, and how it works

Jan 25 2008

Kevin Dooley, PhD, an internationally respected scholar and teacher in the areas of quality management, innovation, and complex systems, is professor of supply chain management at Arizona State University, and COO of Crawdad Technologies. Kevin has published over 100 articles and books. At ASU he co-invented, with Steven R. Corman, Centering Resonance Analysis, the innovative network-based text analysis technology behind http://www.Wonkosphere.com that is marketed by Crawdad. Dr. Dooley also is a science advisor for Plexus Institute. To listen to this call click here:

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PlexusCalls: Neurological, Sociological and Psychological Patterns in Human Behavior

Jan 18 2008

Thomas Smith, PhD., is a professor of sociology at the University of Rochester. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles and books, including his theoretical monograph Strong Interaction (Chicago 1992) which critics praised as a “book that jolts us into new ways of seeing and thinking about human life.” Smith’s more recent work uses computational methods to explore innate mechanisms active in attachment behavior and has opened up, within in his own discipline, a new field that is an outgrowth of the important discoveries in social neuroscience. He has been especially interested in how patterns in social life are linked to neural and hormonal systems. Models of these links have taken the form of hypercycles—strong couplings between attachment behavior and hormonal activity of various kinds. Computational analysis of these models provides strong evidence of how core patterns in social life are constrained physiologically. Anthony Suchman, MD, MA, FACP, FAACH, is a practicing physician and organizational consultant, and clinical professor of medicine and psychiatry at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. He is one of the leading proponents of a partnership-based clinical approach known as Relationship-Centered Care, and has focused attention on how the values expressed in administrative processes and in the behavior of leaders in health care organizations affect care. He was the founding CEO and Chief Medical Officer of the Strong Health Managed Care Organization and has a MA degree in Organizational Change. He is working with clinicians, administrators and board members in health systems in the US and internationally to advance Relationship-Centered Care and chairs the board of the American Academy on Communication in Healthcare. Two of Dr. Smith’s articles, Where Sociability Comes From: Neurosociological Foundations of Social Interaction, and Biological Oscillators, Circadian Clocks, and Sacred Time: Prayer and Caregiving in Neurosociological Perspective, which he co-authored with David Milon are available in the E-library at the Plexus Institute website, www.plexusinstitute.org. To listen to this call click here:

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PlexusCalls: Life in a bacterial world

Jan 11 2008

Jessica Snyder Sachs is a contributing editor to Popular Science and Parenting magazines and writes regularly for Discover, National Wildlife, and other national publications. Her second book for the general reader, the recently published Good Germs, Bad Germs: Health and Survival in a Bacterial World, explores the bacterial ecosystems of healthy human bodies.

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PlexusCalls: Liberating Structures: The Processes that Elicit Collective Creativity: Guests-Henri Lipmanowicz, Keith McCandless and Alison Joslyn

Dec 14 2007

Henri Lipmanowicz recently retired from a distinguished career at Merck, where he was president of the Merck Intercontinental and Japan Division, and a member of the Management Committee. Keith McCandless, principal of the Social Invention Group, is a consultant with expertise in strategic planning, leadership, and organizational development. He has been instrumental in the growth of the Conversation Café movement, which began in Seattle and is spreading internationally as a means of stimulating wide-ranging communication about socially vital issues. Keith helps organizations move forward through uncertainty with innovative approaches including scenario planning, generative dialogue, Chaordic design, communities-of-practice, appreciative inquiry, open space technology, positive deviance, graphic facilitation, and rapid prototyping. Alison Joslyn, the former managing director in Venezuela for Merck, is now Global Brand Leader responsible globally for all in line products and Phase III development programs within the respiratory franchise, including Merck's largest product, SINGULAIR. She earned a BS degree in biology from Yale and an MBA from Dartmouth. She has been with Merck in several capacities for 20 years, and has worked with liberating structures. Liberating structures are the processes and methods that help draw out social inventiveness of individuals, groups and communities. Their strength arises from flexibility and structure. They include simple rules, wicked questions, chunking, and many more. To learn how Keith McCandless describes 20 such approaches developed and adapted by complexity-inspired practitioners, visit http://socialinvention.net/liberatingstructures.aspx To listen to this call click here:

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PlexusCalls: Community approach to preventing AIDS

Nov 16 2007

Helen Epstein is the author of The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West and the Fight Against AIDS. This groundbreaking new book argues that the very institutions designed to lead the global response to HIV/AIDS may in fact be undermining community responses to the epidemic..
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PlexusCalls: Alzheimer's, Dementia, Complexity

Nov 9 2007

Susan D. Gilster, PhD, is founder and executive director of the Alois Alzheimer Center, a pioneering free-standing facility dedicated exclusively to individuals with Alzheimer's disease and dementia..
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PlexusCalls: Communication, Medicine, Jazz

Oct 5 2007

"Man you don't have to play a whole lot of notes. You just have to play the pretty notes". Trumpeter Miles Davis.
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PlexusCalls: The Starfish and the Spider

Sep 7 2007

It would be easy to miss the metaphysical connection between Napster, the pioneer of electronic file sharing, and the Apache Indians of the American West..
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PlexusCalls: Stories, Meaning and Software

Aug 23 2007

Dave Snowden is the Founder of Cognitive Edge, an organisation focused on the creation of an open-source approach to the development and propagation of methods, emergent and distributed forms of research..
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PlexusCalls: The Bee Genome

Jul 13 2007

Bees and humans have been closely associated for a millennia. We have been fascinated by bees ever since our ancient ancestors tasted honey. Scientists have a wealth of knowledge about bees, their behavior and their extraordinary social organization, but mysteries remain..
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PlexusCalls: Leadership and Communication

Jun 28 2007

Do leaders tend to have a distinctive style of communicating, and do their choices matter? What elements create the messages they send, about their decisions, their ideals and their goals? How do the action and narratives used and observed in organization impact interaction, collaboration and success?.
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PlexusCalls: Complexity View of Quality, Value and the Human Factor

Jun 22 2007

What do we mean when we talk about quality and value? How do we define quality, and where do values originate? Does value arise at the point where economics and ethics intersect? Can ideas about quality and value apply across different professions and environments? And how can complexity science help us get a better understand of what quality means? The guests on this call, who come from different fields, have given serious thought to such questions..
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PlexusCalls: Social Networking and Social Capital

May 18 2007

Duncan Work is an independent consultant with the Social Capital Consulting Group. From 2004 through 2006, he was Chief Scientist and Social Responsibility Officer for LinkedIn Corporation..
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PlexusCalls: Habitat for Humanity Egypt

May 11 2007

Habitat for Humanity Egypt has become one of the most successful Habitat programs in the world. The program, founded in 1989, is trying to serve ten percent of the 20 million Egyptians living in poverty while at the same time developing the local nongovernmental organization capacity to serve the rest..
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PlexusCalls: Corporate Team Learning

Apr 27 2007

Rod Collins recently retired after 33 years with the Blue Cross Blue Shield Federal Employee Program (FEP)where he held several executive Positions. Since 2001, he had served as FEP's Chief Operating Executive with accountability for providing health insurance for over 4.5 million federal employees and family members nationwide. FEP is a business alliance of 39 independent Blue Cross Blue Shield Plans with annual revenues over $19 billion, and is widely regarded as one of the best run health insurance arrangement in the country today. In this most recent role, Rod implemented a Learning Organization management discipline that emphasizes team learning and cross-boundary collaboration. He also pioneered the use of an original large group meeting format known as "Work-Throughs." Rod will discuss the theory and the practice of Work-Throughs and as a valuable tool for effectively and quickly managing complexity to achieve on-time and on-budget quality results.
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PlexusCalls: Nature as a Design Partner

Apr 6 2007

Eugene Tsui, PhD, is a visionary international architect who is considered a pioneer in implementing ecological technologies and biological processes as a basis for imaginative form and extraordinary function. He has written four books, which the Royal Institute of British Architects and the American Institute of Building Design have designated as "recommended reading." His book The Urgency of Change and Evolutionary Architecture: Nature as the Basis for Design explains how natural forms offer beauty and stability. He has projects China, Europe and through out the US. As he explains on the web site for, Tsui Design and Research, Inc, his rigorous studies of nature inspire innovative forms that use nontoxic materials and are designed to resist fires, floods, earthquakes and termites..
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PlexusCalls: Electronic Communication

Mar 22 2007

Jane Patterson is director of e-NC, an innovative pubic program designed to get all residents of North Carolina using communication technology, especially the Internet, to improve lives and economic conditions. Donna Sullivan is senior program director. Liz Rykert is presidentof Metastrategies, a Canadian firm devoted to helping public and nonprofit organizations develop web-based capabilities. .
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PlexusCalls: Transitional Times, Uncertainty, & the Future

Mar 16 2007

Managing Uncertainty in Transitional Times Guest: Eamonn Kelly Eamonn Kelly is the CEO of the Global Business Network, the renowned futures network and scenario strategy consultancy. He is also an author and speaker who has spent more than a decade studying the emergence of a new economic, social and geopolitical order and analyzing the impact those changes will ring for individuals, communities and organizations. In his book Powerful Times, Kelly presents persuasive arguments that we are on the brink of the most profound change in human history since the Enlightenment. A student of history and an astute observer of today's world, Kelly believes the interplay of the dynamic tensions of our current social, economic and cultural lives will fundamentally reshape human life in coming decades..
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PlexusCalls: Storytelling & Archetypes

Mar 1 2007

Author and storyteller Kelly M. Cresap, Ph.D., uses the art of storytelling to bring human possibilities into focus. In workshops and seminars he equips participants with a comprehensive four-archetype system, composed of the Sovereign, the Warrior, the Magician, and the Lover. These finite archetypal embodiments have an infinite number of applications. The system is simple enough to remember, light enough to carry, and profound enough to address the most complex of challenges.Sharon Benjamin, PhD, is the principal of Alchemy, a Washington, DC based management consulting practice. She is an experienced executive who has served as a CEO, Vice President of Marketing, Vice President of Institutional Development and Finance, Deputy Director for Planning and as a grant-maker..
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PlexusCalls: Appreciative Inquiry

Feb 9 2007

How does Appreciative Inquiry differ from other approaches to change? For one thing, it focuses on hopes, dreams and core values. Instead of finding problems and assigning causes, appreciative inquiry looks for the best, and asks participants to find ways to make the best happen more often. Many who have studied and practiced the process say it opens new possibilities for change and transformation..
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PlexusCalls: Complexity and Leadership

Feb 1 2007

What happens when business leaders shift their focus from efficiency and control and begin to understand and examine self-organization and emergence? Some theoreticians and practitioners say the result is creativity and adaptability. But how do we define leadership, and does our conventional language impose a constraint on our learning? Guests with diverse experiences explore these questions..
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PlexusCalls: Social Networks

Dec 8 2006

Social capital and social networks can be put to work to help parents, children, and their organizations and institutions to build better, stronger communities..
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PlexusCalls: Complexity Scholars on Action and Change

Nov 10 2006

Do you feel an individual is too helpless to even think about big and difficult social issues? Read Getting to Maybe, and listen to the authors, who have thought deeply about this theoretical and practical issue. They bring knowledge, experience, responsibility and soul-searching to one of the most pressing challenges of the hectic, crowded and often overwhelming society in which so many people live today..
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PlexusCalls: How to halt hospital infections

Nov 3 2006

Dr. Betsy McCaughey is a health policy expert and former Lieutenant Governor in New York. She is the founder and chairman of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths (RID), a non-profit organization committed to encouraging hospitals to make infection prevention a top priority, to educating patients on how to protect themselves, and to educating future doctors and nurses on how to prevent the spread of infection in healthcare environments.Dr. Jerry Zuckerman is Medical Director of Infection Control and physician champion for Quality Management's Infection Initiatives at Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA. He is attending physician in infectious diseases at Albert Einstein, and an assistant professor of medicine at Thomas Jefferson School of Medicine. These two experts will discuss ways to stop the spread of hospital associated infections. A Plexus Institute initiative to halt the spread of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) infections is being funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. It involves a partnership among Plexus Institute, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Positive Deviance Initiative at Tufts University, and a nationwide network of 40 hospitals..
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PlexusCalls: Conversations

Oct 19 2006

Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard. William Jennings Bryant.
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PlexusCalls: A Community Tackles Youth Violence & Drug Use

Sep 29 2006

Join this provocative discussion to learn how members of a community can combine their differing knowledge and resources to change the conditions that perpetuate youth violence. .
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PlexusCalls: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina

Sep 8 2006

Lessons from Hurricane Katrina and its Aftermath: A Complexity View.
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PlexusCalls: Voluntary Computing

Sep 1 2006

What Do Climate Change, Extraterrestrial Life, Spinning Neutron Stars and Malaria Have in Common? Grassroots Supercomputing May Shed New Light On All of Them.
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PlexusCalls: How Complexity Principles Align With Management

Aug 25 2006

Marc Narkus-Kramer began his career in the fields of energy and the environment, and has spent the last 20 years working on air traffic control modernization with the MITRE Corporation's Center for Advanced Aviation System Development (CAASD), based in MacLean, Virginia. MITRE is a non-profit corporation working in the public interest in partnership with government clients. It addresses issues of critical national importance, combining systems engineering and information technology to develop innovative solutions..
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PlexusCalls: Complexity in Medicine

Jul 28 2006

Complexity and the Body: Froniters in Medical Research.
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PlexusCalls: Marine Mammals and the Health of the Oceans

Jul 7 2006

Earth's Final Frontier: the Oceans.
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PlexusCalls: Appreciative Leadership & Network Weaving

Jun 20 2006

Guests: Jack Ricchiuto, Lisa Kimball and June Holley discuss Appreciative Leadership and Network Weaving..
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PlexusCalls: New book, The Complementary Nature

Jun 2 2006

Dr. J.A. Scott Kelso, the neuroscientist and author, founded the Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences at Florida Atlantic University in 1985 to assemble scholars and researchers from diverse fields to work together on complex issues. His new book, The Complementary Nature, co-authored with David A. Engstrom, is in bookstores now..
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PlexusCalls: Scoles & Liebovitch discuss trends in scientific research

May 26 2006

Dr. Giacinto Scoles, a Princeton University professor who received the 2006 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics, and Dr. Larry Liebovitch, Interim Director of the Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences at Florida Atlantic University, discuss trends in scientific reseach. Dr. Scoles was awarded the physics medal for developing a new technique for studying molecules by embedding them in ultra-cold droplets of helium..
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PlexusCalls: Hurricanes, Storms, and Weather as a Complex System

May 12 2006

Dr. Greg Holland, director of Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology (MMM) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Bolder, Colorado has spent much of his career with Australia's Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre, where he focused on tropical meteorology and severe weather and established programs to study the coastal impact of tropical cyclones. Dr. Bruce J. West, the Chief Scientist of the Mathematical and Information Science Directorate at the US Army Research Office, has also studied weather systems. Dr. Holland comes to NCAR from Aerosonde, a manufacturer of lightweight and long-range robotic aircraft, where he played a key role in developing small unmanned vehicles. Under Dr. Holland's leadership, MMM plans to nest weather research forecasting within a global climate model as part of a substantial program to investigate the way large-scale processes translate into local impacts, and vice-versa..
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PlexusCalls: Dr. John Holland and Dr. Scott Camazine discuss complexity science, innovative problem solving and future trends in complexity

Apr 28 2006

Dr. John Holland is known worldwide as the father of genetic algorithms and one of the most visionary thinkers in complexity science. He is an author an a professor of electrical engineering, computer science and psychology at the University of Michigan. He earned his BS in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and earned a master's degree in math and a doctorate in communications from the University of Michigan. Dr. Scott Camazine is a biologist, physician and photographer with a life-long interest in the natural world, and he has spent much of his career studying honeybee behavior. He is author of The Naturalist's Year and Velvet Mites and Silken Webs, and co-author of Self Organization in Biological Systems..
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PlexusCalls: Storytelling for Social Change

Apr 21 2006

Kate Randolph has worked world wide with teams to design social content soap operas that promote discussion and debate through educational stories. James Palmer researches internationally on human interaction and collaboration as emergent patterns of practice. Virginia Lacayo was co-creator and producer of the first Nicaraguan soap opera designed to reach young audiences with informational stories on sexual and human rights issues. .
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PlexusCalls: Smart Networks: What They Are, How They Work

Mar 31 2006

Dr. Kevin Dooley, professor of supply chain management at the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University and Dr. Lisa Kimball, executive producer of Group Jazz, an organization devoted to supporting teams, task forces, communities and organizations,will discuss networks and communications. Dr. Dooley is trustee and past president of the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and Life Sciences. Both guests have deep understanding of the applications of complexity inspired principles..
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PlexusCalls: How Hospitals Heal Themselves

Mar 10 2006

Join journalist, TV producer and author Clare Crawford-Mason and Lisa Kimball, Plexus Trustee and owner of Group Jazz, in conversation about Ms. Crawford-Mason's latest project: a PBS documentary Good News: How Hospitals Heal Themselves. .
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PlexusCalls: Complexity and Organizational Leadership

Mar 3 2006

Complexity and Organizational Leadership: Special guests for this PlexusCalls will be Henri Lipmanowicz and Grey Warner..
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PlexusCalls: Complexity and Conflict Resolution

Feb 10 2006

Sharon Burde, a leader of the Women's Strategy Group and a mediator who also teaches at New York University's Wagner School of Public Affairs will discuss conflict resolution with Dr. Barry Dorn, Associate Director of the Program for Health Care Negotiation and Conflict Resolution at the Harvard School of Public Health..
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PlexusCalls: Complexity and Social Services

Jan 1 2006

Guests will be William Waldman, former Director of Human Services in New Jersey and now a professor at Rutgers University; Rita Saenz, former Director of Social Services in California and now chief executive officer of the Academy for Coaching Excellence; and Liz Rykert, president of MetaStrategies, a Canadian consulting firm devoted to helping charities, nonprofit and public organizations use the Internet and develop web-based capabilities..
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PlexusCalls: "Too Beautiful" Our Father's Last Days

Oct 24 2003

In this conversation we will recount how members of one family used concepts inspired by complexity science to inform how they worked together to make the last days of their father comfortable, free of pain, and full with dignity, meaning, and love. The title of the PlexusCalls is "Too Beautiful" Our Father's Last Days. Participating in this conversation will be Robert Lindberg, MD, Curt Lindberg, and David Introcaso, PhD..
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PlexusCalls: Another Way of Thinking About Complexity in Human Organizations and Reframing the Role of Leaders.

All three of the featured guests on this call have been active learners and leaders in the complexity and organizational management field. Some evidence: all recently completed the Doctorate in Management Programme developed by Ralph Stacey at the Complexity and Management Centre, University of Hertfordshire. As many of you undoubtedly know, Ralph Stacey is one of the most thoughtful scholars and organizational theorists in the complexity and management field. He, along with colleagues, has been developing a human oriented perspective on complexity and organizations called complex responsive processes. Jim, Steve and John will explore how their thinking about organizations and their practice of management have been shaped by their immersion in complexity science, their doctoral work, and their interactions with Ralph Stacey. .
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