Ray Kurzweil is going to be interactively live on C-SPAN2′s “Book TV” this coming Sunday from 1100-1400 CST. Here is the blurb from this morning’s NYT: “Join us for a live conversation with Ray Kurzweil, author of several books about artificial intelligence, including The Age of Spiritual Machines, and his latest, The Singularity is Near: [...]
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Are colleges “endangered?”
2/19/2005
Article link: Colleges: an endangered species? Andrew Delbanco ponders in the New York Review of Books (March 10, 2005) what a college education means today: “for the relatively few students who still attend a traditional liberal arts college—whether part of, or independent from, a university—what do they get when they get there?“ Read the entire [...]
Sixth sense: accelerating organizational learning with scenarios
12/6/2004
Van der Heijden, K. A. (2002). Sixth sense: accelerating organizational learning with scenarios. Chichester ; New York: Wiley. Van der Heijden builds upon the ideas in Scenarios and delves into more modern approaches to scenario planning. He argues, scenario-based continuous learning is the best approach for organizations to identify and plan for external environmental inputs [...]
The future of knowledge: increasing prosperity through value networks
11/29/2004
Allee, V. (2003). The future of knowledge: increasing prosperity through value networks. Amsterdam ; Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann. Allee provides a collection of frameworks and ideas to help organizational leaders navigate through the challenges in a knowledge-based society. Her value network approach identifies key and exploitable relationships within complex, dynamic, organizational systems. These ideas are compatible with [...]
Creating better futures: scenario planning as a tool for a better tomorrow
11/24/2004
Ogilvy, J. A. (2002). Creating better futures: scenario planning as a tool for a better tomorrow. New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press. Ogilvy writes that the future is neither predictable nor constructed of endless possibilities. We can create better futures by thinking ahead and planning with scenarios. In a chapter on using scenarios for educational [...]
Scenarios: the art of strategic conversation
11/22/2004
Van der Heijden, K. (1996). Scenarios: the art of strategic conversation. Chichester, England New York: John Wiley & Sons. Van der Heijden argues organizations need to face up to uncertain possible futures. In this book, he argues leaders need to develop organizational processes that foster success. Organizations are characterized as feedback-looped, complex adaptive systems, driven [...]
The fifth discipline
11/21/2004
Senge, P. M. (1994). The fifth discipline: the art and practice of the learning organization (1st ed.). New York: Doubleday/Currency. Senge argues traditional organizational leaders need to “revolutionize” their management philosophy toward the highly conceptual approach of systems thinking as the basis for building learning organizations. He adds this “fifth discipline” to four others: building [...]
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