I got sidetracked by some other issues and haven’t gotten around to finishing my posts on the GO Society Conference. Most importantly was my wife’s completion of the Phase 1 deliverable of our Baby Project (Alice Lee Christian, mom and her both doing great).
Upcoming in the next two weeks (no earlier — it’s our first) [...]

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Religious Systems not just denominations or churches, etc.
Some comments from the participants in this session. Hierarchy seems to have come from the order of the priesthood (various religions). The hierarchy is then a reflection of the holy(?). What is a managerial accountability hierarchy and what is not, and how these issues in religious systems [...]

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Ian Macdonald, of Macdonald Associates Consultancy, opens the day with a short plenary on “Positive Oranizations: Discipline not Dogma”. Reflecting on the practitioner and the practice. Why he does it.
What drew him to EJ’s work was the underlying values, lik Felt-Fairness, what’s social justice, non-paranoiagenic institutions. It was about building social institutions.
Second, the method of [...]

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The Plenary Day opened with the video (available on the website) again, so that all us “authors” and new people could know what it was. It was followed by some history of the work on the theories. (Do you know the book Strategic Leadership that’s an academic-level book on Jaques and Co.? I think it’s [...]

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(This is basically for Kalman, who couldn’t make it to the conference. Perhaps it will help with his reviews.)
The “Designing Organizations for Value-Creation, Sustainability and Social Well-Being” pre-conference program actually started last Friday with a two-day course by Barry and Sheila Deane. I didn’t attend, but I spoke with Barry on Sunday and he said [...]

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As part of the GO Society Conference in Toronto, we attendees were asked to complete a survey by Online PeopleScan. I have no idea what the results mean, but thought that some of you might find it interesting to see.
It’s a PDF because I wasn’t thinking. IT professional and all.
Culture Scan results

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Facing up to parallelism: Multicore means today’s HPC is tomorrow’s general purpose” by Martin Banks
The Register has an interesting article on the International Supercomputing Conference keynote speech by Burton Smith, who used to be Chief Scientist at Cray and now works at Microsoft. Smith believes that parallel computing, now the domain of mostly High Performance [...]

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