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Educational Events & the Latest News!
This Fall: Adizes & Spiral Dynamics seminars in Texas, California, India, & Eastern Europe
Dr. Bruce LaRue - forthcoming new book
Dr. Virginijus Kundrotas: 33rd Adizes International Convention in Vilnius, Lithuania
Dr Marilyn Hamilton: Special Library Collection
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| AGS Global News & Events | Fall 2011 |
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Applying to AGS is FREE... why wait?
Quotable Quote regarding the online course in Models of Conflict: This was a new subject for me and a very useful subject, in my opinion, with regard to both professional and personal relationships. The reading materials were very informative and interesting, and the Professor's responsiveness and professionalism were impressive. This course helped me reflect on past events in my profession and provided a lot of insight into what is happening in the world today. ~ a Ph.D. candidate, Taiwan, August 2011.
Visit our website and or contact Admissions at Degree@Adizes.com for application details.
Winter Application Deadline: November 15, 2011 |
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Educational Events: India, September 7th
Harsh Chopra is Country Manager for Adizes India. The New Delhi office has been hosting a number of interactive educational workshops in Delhi and Gurgaon. This summer, Harsh presented two workshops on Successful Entrepreneurship - Professionalise without losing vitality. On September 7th, the office will host Management of Internal Organizational Conflict in Mumbai.
The workshops are limited to only 20 participants and are hosted at 5-star hotel properties such as the Hyatt Regency and the Westin Hotels. This summer, participants came from as far as 1200km away and included a balanced mix of both entrepreneurial companies like Rockman Industries, The Global Education and Leadership Foundation, Green Systems, and eTree Consulting; and established firms such as Amteck, Asian Hotels Ltd., Rico Auto Industries, and Mother Dairy.
The workshops include various educational videos such as Entrepreneurship and The Aristocratic Company, and Go-Go, which represent phases on the Adizes Lifecycle (see link below). Take-home materials include a special Leadership DVD!
To join the next workshop scheduled in Mumbai on September 7th: Contact Apurba Roy ...
Management of Internal Organizational Conflict is a highly interactive one day workshop. Specific methodology for dealing with destructive internal organizational conflict will be explored along with a roadmap for taking your organization to Prime and ways of building a culture of mutual trust and respect. Prime is considered the most vibrant phase of the organizational lifecycle, in which a company is able to effectively flex in the face of accelerated change. Leadership roles and styles essential to each phase of the lifecycle- from entrepreneurship to Prime, will also be explored. Established firms will identify methods for returning to the vitality of Prime.
Click here for a demonstration of the Lifecycle model. Click here for a free online Lifecycle Assessment!
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Large scale Spiral Dynamics events:
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Netherlands Confab |
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Palestine Meshworks |
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More Events!
Three dates in Eastern Europe!
Breakthrough to Prime!
Sept. 19-20, 2011 Tbilisi, Georgia
(English)
Sept. 29-30, 2011 Vilnius, Lithuania
(Lithuanian)
Oct. 5-6, 2011 Riga, Latvia
(English)
See the Breakthrough to Prime! article at right for details and contact Virginijus Kundrotas, Dean of Adizes Graduate School, for registration information.
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October 14, 2011
Annual President's Forum
Bled, Slovenia
Dr. Adizes will a guest speaker at the IEDC Bled School of Business' Annual President's Forum:
Creating the Future.
This year is of particular importance because the school is celebrating 25 years of successful, innovative learning. The title of Dr. Adizes presentation is Courage to Change.
For information please click here. |
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Adizes Graduate School (AGS) keeps it's classes small, so that students can receive in-depth feedback on an individual basis from their instructors and peers. Class size will never exceed 10 students online.
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Winter Term Applications are due November 15th.
Overseas students apply early to make sure you are accepted in time to order books, attend Orientation and the software training. |
Adizes Graduate School
New student Applications for all programs are due November 15, 2011.
For information on all Adizes Graduate School programs, contact Stephanie Galindo, M.Ed., Student Dean, at Degree@Adizes.com.
To apply to the School, visit the Application page of the AGS website.
AGS Founder: Dr. Ichak Adizes with core faculty member, Dr. Don E. Beck |
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Convention Photos!
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Trakai Castle, Lithuania |
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Nurit & Ichak Adizes make Kibinai |
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Kibinai ~ ready to bake! |
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Vera Marina Jorge from Brazil explores Trakai |
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Dr. Virginijus Kundrotas, Dean of AGS (left) with senior Adizes Practitioners Sunil Dovedy, who has been working in India, and Zvezdan Horvat, Southeast Europe. |
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Spiral Dynamics Confab:
Dallas, TX, September 5-11
Cracking the Codes of Peace
Getting rid of what you don't want is not the same as getting what you do want. Why is peace and harmony ever so elusive?
We warmly invite you to join us for a "peace conference" unlike any other you've ever heard of.
Together with concepts such as hope and change, and making a difference - no dream burns brighter in the human heart than the quest for peace and harmony for all. It is the perennial yearning, which continues to be frustrated no matter how much we talk about it, write about it, beat our breasts about it, or fashion endless accords and summits and conferences around it.
Spiral Dynamics practitioners know that the modern quest for the prevention and resolution of conflict is intrinsically flawed, doomed for repeated collapse, unless we add the missing ingredient to all our deliberations. Now, we are uniquely equipped to leverage our deep understanding of the complexities of human culture to bridge the global cultural divides cannot bridge themselves. Transformational training and tools for exploring and describing the core intelligences and deep values that flow beneath what we believe and do are available to us.
PEACE BY DESIGN
We know that lasting, authentic, and sustainable peace has not come about as a result of debate, negotiation, or compromise by the elite or even by experts.
This event will introduce our "Peace by Design" initiative which has emerged out of current life conditions mired in dangerous fragmentation, stagnation and gridlock. The initiative is the culmination of almost 40 years of theoretical research, global field applications, and deeply practical insights. Peace by Design employs transformational concepts and processes such as Transpartisanship (how to move beyond partisanship and bipartisanship) and the Assimilation/Contrast Effect - the world's finest model for dealing with entire spectrums of differences that are driven today by centrifugal forces that threaten civilization itself.
Through Peace by Design we will introduce new ways of decision-making that can scale at any level - from, for example, school boards to city councils to community design, and even geopolitical conflicts.
FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS
We will also launch our new approach Functional Analysis, a process in decision-making and priority setting that is elsewhere known as Value Engineering and/or Value Management. Functional Analysis is a sophisticated decision-making system, like CAPI (Coalescing Authority, Power and Influence), that brings together all aspects or points of view, literally from cleaning staff to CEOs, in a process that identifies the essential functions to achieve mutually agreed upon objectives. This is a neutral-space process, as free from bias as possible and without agendas, pre- determined programs, etc.
SO MUCH MORE
We suggest that you visit the Spiral Dynamics Integral website for more detailed information and registration, click here. The Confab in Dallas will also include Level 1-2 training and Certification.
Adizes Graduate School will host its next Spiral Dynamics Level 1-2 training in central California 14-19 November - see article below!
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BREAKTHROUGH TO PRIME
California: October 27-29, 2011
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Breakthrough to Prime! (June, 2011, Mexico) |
This seminar is especially valuable for key executives, corporate leaders, and individuals seeking insight into how to successfully manage change in the public, private, and governmental sectors. Participants tend to be creative thinkers and leaders who seek natural systems and unifying constructs that can influence their organizations, communities, and individual lives in positive ways.
BREAKTHROUGH TO PRIME presents the cornerstones of the Adizes Methodology. These, and other key knowledge points, give you an opportunity to take your organization to the next level and allow your team to perform at its highest capability. The seminar is highly interactive. Participants experience the power of the Adizes Methodology firsthand.
These concepts will help you to:
- UNDERSTAND your personal management style
- RECOGNIZE the key factors that impact decision making
- LEARN HOW to avoid destructive conflict
- DISCOVER where your organization is in its lifecycle
- PREDICT and prepare for the challenges you will face
- MASTER strategies to avoid the downward corporate spiral
For more information, call +1-805-565-2901 xt 109 or email Paula@Adizes.com. An Event flyer is available here: Breakthrough to Prime! Click here for a free online lifecycle analysis!
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SPIRAL DYNAMICS LEVEL 1-2 CERTIFICATION
California: November 14-19, 2011
Come learn from Dr. Don E. Beck live... followed by a special online practitioner dialogue!
Get Level 1-2 Certification in live, interactive seminars with music, videos, self-testing materials, individual and group activities. Take-home materials that you can use include testing templates, manuals, colorful charts, articles that you are free to share, video links and your own set of slides. You are guaranteed to leave with significant insights into:
- why people and groups act as they do,
- how to align people with purpose,
- deep communication strategies,
- how to manage organizational transitions and transformation,
- understanding conflict,
- and how this relates to the global community.
For more details about this course, visit our website!
Special Guest! Darrell Gooden, a Ph.D. candidate at Adizes Graduate School, provides a two hour presentation during Level 2 describing how he has integrated Spiral Dynamics and Adizes methodologies in his career in the U.S. military. Darrell has been approved by Dr. Beck to teach the 3-week online dialogue following the live Spiral Dynamics seminars, and also teaches the 11-week online graduate course for AGS students.
NLP practitioners welcome! Professionals interested in earning a Masters or Doctoral Degree in Organizational Transformation can get credit for this seminar! Contact us for details at: Degree@Adizes.com.
NOTE: The Inn at East Beach has all amenities just steps from the beach in Santa Barbara. Contact Linda for special weekly rates. Make your reservations early! Santa Barbara is a resort destination and the hotels book up very fast!
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AGS FACULTY NEWS:
Dr. Bruce LaRue is planning a new book!
Dr. Bruce LaRue, a faculty member at Adizes Graduate School and Chair of two doctoral committees is writing a new book. He was intrigued by the concern, expressed by high ranking officials in the U.S. Department of Defense and elsewhere, that the nation seems to have stalled with regard to renewable, sustainable innovations and developments. Global systems are so integrated now that a new level of integration for coping and adaptation is also critical.
The Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) is a DoD briefing on long-term planning initiatives, revised regularly as DoD assesses the threats and challenges that the nation faces and re-balances strategies and capabilities. According to the QDR released in 2010, the organization is no longer debating the issue of climate change. Forward looking strategists are making operational changes right now:
Climate change will shape the operating environment, roles, and missions that we undertake. Assessments conducted by the intelligence community indicate that climate change could have significant geopolitical impacts around the world, contributing to poverty, environmental degradation, and the further weakening of fragile governments. Climate change will contribute to food and water scarcity, will increase the spread of disease, and may spur or exacerbate mass migration. While climate change alone does not cause conflict, it may act as an accelerant of instability or conflict, placing a burden to respond on civilian institutions and militaries around the world.
Climate, pandemics, cyber-wars, financial volatility, and shifting birth rates, for example, in an integrated global community create a confluence of crises that have no historic parallel. Dr. LaRue believes we have fragmented institutions without the national priorities needed to deal with this level of complexity. "None of these crises fit nicely inside the responsible areas of the Department of Whatever," he said, "We have to develop institutions that behave like complex adaptive systems, not machines, in order to adapt to the second and third order effects of the crises we face today."
Experts, like Dr. LaRue, who consult with the DoD regularly, believe that conservation, sustainability, and renewable energy innovation should be encouraged as strategic national priorities. It is worth noting that the cost of microchips fell from $1000 to around $20 each due to government procurement, according to Dr. LaRue. Similar large-scale procurement can make renewable resources affordable for distribution to households and communities here and around the world.
Dr. LaRue's new book will focus on strategies that can be used from the grass roots level to the national level, in organizations and business to drive innovation and flexibility. The book is intended to generate new perspectives, strategies, and techniques for organizing and realigning organizations behind new priorities. The book will assist people with creating cross-sector platforms for innovation. "We have to create an 'innovation generation', starting in our school systems in order to cope with accelerated change now and in the future", says Dr. LaRue.
At Adizes Graduate School, Dr. LaRue is teaching Systems Thinking: Modeling Complexity online this Fall. In the Winter Term, he will teach Epistemology - a course that explores how we examine the underpinnings of our knowledge in terms of assumptions and perceptions. Both courses are essential to strategic thinking and innovation, and Dr. LaRue hopes to see some creative dissertation ideas for managing change and transformation emerge from his Ph.D. level classes.
We hope to share an excerpt of the new book with you as it evolves. Stephanie Galindo, Student Dean and Director of Academic Services at Adizes Graduate School, is Contributing Editor.
Applications for the Winter Term are due November 15, 1011. Visit our website for details! |
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The 33rd Adizes International Convention - July 2011:
A Perspective from Dr. Virginijus Kundrotas,
Dean of Adizes Graduate School
The Adizes International Convention is held in a different country each year and is open to everyone in the network - including students and faculty members from Adizes Graduate School, companies using Adizes methodology, schools using Adizes curricula, and the families of all participants. Over the past five years, Adizes Institute, parent of Adizes Graduate School, has focused on bringing transformational managerial practices to Eastern Europe, so the 33rd convention was held in Vilnius, Lithuania, June 30-July 2nd, 2011. Dr. Virginijus Kundrotas, Dean of Adizes Graduate School, had a lot of exciting news to share: 91 participants from 19 countries came together for this event.
Dr. Kundrotas recalled one memorable presentation by Lithuania's Minister of Education, Gintaras Steponavicius. The Minister provided a presentation on transformation and reform in higher education in Lithuania. The country is revamping its philosophical approach to higher education, its management model, financial model, and bodies of oversight. Responsibilities in the governing bodies are moving toward a management system with a Board of Directors which appoints the Rector of the Universities, who then appoints the Deans, etc. Now the Boards include more than 50% external representatives from business and society, so there is far more integration with, and perspective regarding the alignment of higher education and national objectives. Previously an electoral senate chose the Rector, so there was less responsibility for this level of oversight.
Dr. Kundrotas recalled, from talking with in-company participants, that their professional experience with Adizes methods was very revealing. They now realize that organizations are not static bodies and that they can be managed by lifecycle phase. In the past, managers felt frustrated with the different approaches to management. Now they can see that there are different priorities and different leadership styles needed during the course of an organizational lifecycle. CEOs also realized that they need to be aware of managerial styles of their team members. For example, asking a person who has an administrative style to come up with innovations for development is going to be difficult. The CEOs now recognize the strengths of various leadership styles in their own team members, and can design their leadership teams more effectively.
During the event, Mataj Cadez and his company, Halcom of Slovenia, were presented with the Pursuit of the Prime Award, a recognition given to a company that manifests dedication over time to build and nurture an organizational culture of mutual trust and respect. Per Waage, CEO of Statens Innkrevingssentral-National Collection Centre of Norway, made a special appearance to share his reflections on how the Adizes Methodology has been beneficial over the long term.
In addition to the professional colloquia and presentations, these conventions always try to integrate local history in an educational context. Aage Myhre, Editor-in-Chief of Vil News, an architect, journalist and philanthropist, offered some local wisdom through his presentation The Lithuania You Probably Don't Know About.
Please see www.VilNews.com, an electronic Lithuanian e-magazine, for some highlights of the convention by the Chief Editor Myhre.
Participants also went to Trakai, the Mideaval capital of Lithuania in the 10-12th century - a beautiful area on a lake. Lithuania used to be the largest country in Europe, stretching from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea in the 13-14th century. The local minority, the Karaimai, came from the Black Sea area. The national food for the Karaimai is the Kibinai, a small tart made of meat and vegetables, or vegetables alone such as cucumbers, tomatoes, carrots, onion, and peppers with salt in a wheat dough. Participants made their own lunch, which was baked and "In the end, we got to eat them!" says Dr. Kundrotas. The pictures (at left) tell the story!
During the gala closing dinner, Mega Euro Group, a convention sponsor and a producer and exporter of textiles, presented the group with a huge woven sweater banner to commemorate the convention. Another textile company, LINAS, gave souvenir table linens to every one of the participants.
Click here for photos and more details of the Convention and Adizes activities in Eastern Europe.
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Sharing the extraordinary commemorative sweater! |
Click for a mouse-over demonstration of the Lifecycle model. For information on Adizes Graduate School educational programs, contact Edu@Adizes.com. |
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New Library Additions!
Dr. Marilyn Hamilton, an expert is Spiral Dynamics applications,
particularly in community planning, has kindly provided her Research and Library pages for our students:
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Out of time? Tired of high shipping charges? Look into using digital books! |
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