Conference Update: Is RO Ethical?

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Another in my belated series of summaries of the GO Society conference in Toronto, Ontario. There was a special plenary-style session on “Ethics and RO” after dinner Tuesday night. It was an interesting discussion, partly because there were definitely different value sets in the audience. If it got recorded, I doubt that it would be useful: there was a lot …

Conference Updates: More Coming Later

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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) are topics that you …

Conference Report: Religious Systems and RO

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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 has impact generally. Some comments …

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Ian Macdonald on Values and the Shadow-side of Requisite Organization (Conference Report)

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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 Elliott Jaques’s work was the underlying values, like Felt-Fairness, what’s social justice, non-paranoiagenic organizations. It was about building social institutions. Second, the method of social analysis. …

Conference Report: CEOs Plenary

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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 related to the work in …

Conference Report: Legacy Day

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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 it went rather well. …