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Monday March 8, 2010
Stories That Matter
 
Bioneers Charting New Approach to Solve Environmental and Social Problems
Dreaming New Mexico engages citizens, industry, government and state in building a new future
Dr. Tim Foresman says he joined Bioneers to participate in one of the most effective models he's seen to address complex environmental and social problems. Read More 
 
 
Largest Storytelling Machine, the Media, can Create Engaged Citizenry
Most critical problems facing humanity is not the environment, but the electronic environment generated by the mass media, says Elgin
If people connect and orient their lives through stories, then the world's largest storytelling machine, the mass media, holds the potential to cultivate an informed and involved citizenry, says Duane Elgin.
 
Design Matters II: Learning from Roger Martin
Roger Martin's latest book, The Design of Business clearly demonstrates how design is anPeter Pula answer to a fundamental gap in most organizations. That gap is the oft-neglected vacuum in innovation.
 
Over the years, tipped off by the distinction Peter F. Drucker made between operations and innovation, I have repeatedly come across the preference for one and the dangerous neglect of the other. I have seen the phenomenon in my workplace, through years of news coverage, as a member of community boards and as the chairman of one of them.
 
Drucker described the phenomenon clearly. Today's breadwinner is concrete, understood because of repeated and predictable patterns, and usually urgent.
 
Storytelling an Unparalleled Method to Convey Meaning: Mohr Organization designer shares how stories can lead to change
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - In a world of complexity and nuance, it's the time-honoured tradition of storytelling that provides an unparalleled method to convey meaning, says Bernard Mohr.
 
Mohr, an organization designer with Innovation Partners International, shared this idea as part of his presentation on Appreciative Inquiry (AI) to health-care delegates during the third International Innovation Expedition in Health Care.
 
The two-day workshop convened health-care leaders who are all grappling with the challenge of change and are using AI - a constructive approach to organizational development that builds on strengths and what's working - to foster innovation and culture transformation. Read More
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