On Thu, 29 Feb Walter Dzerko, Founder of the Creativity Consortium, wrote:
 
> The Creativity Consortium was formed in 1993 and is dedicated to fostering
> and promoting the use of lateral and creative thinking skills in education,
> business, government, culture and society.
 
SOUNDS GREAT TO ME!!
 
> The Creativity Consortium is trying to bring back some of that spirit and
> passion for fresh ideas and concepts.
 
REALLY? SOUNDS GREAT TO ME!
 
> Organizational Paradigms
>
> That Was Then...20th Century      This is Now...21 Century
>
> Stabilty, Predictability            Discontinous Change, Cont.Improvement
>
> Size and Scale                            Speed and responsiveness
>
> TopDown: Command & Control        Empowerment, Leadership from all
>
> Organizational Rigidity                   Virtual Organizations,Permanent Flexibility
>
> Control by Rules & Hierarchy      Control by Vision and values
>
> Process Driven                            Results driven
>
> Rational, Qualitative Analytics    Creativity, Inution, Thinking about
 thinking
>
> Need for certainty                 Tolerance for Ambiguity
 
WOW! WHAT A GREAT GROUP OF CHARACTERISTICS!
 
Do you have a set of specific tools and actions by which any boss
can infuse all of these characteristics into a group within a company
or into an entire company?? Having a successful chorus line may be a
fine concept or characteristic, but if no one can tell us where to
put our feet, how to swing our arms and in what order, we will never
get the show on the road.
 
Please let us know the book or whatever which will provide these
techniques/actions.
 
IF YOU DON'T HAVE SUCH A BOOK, WOULD YOU LIKE ONE?
If yes, let me know because we have one. We appreciate that many
people on the net are mostly interested in concepts and prefer to
leave their implementation to others.
 
> We then went on the explore the Hallmarks of a learning organization:
>
> -Intellectual Curiosity
> -Organizational humility
> -High tolerance for change, complexity and ambiguity
> -Capacity to imagine alternative futures (scenarios)
> -A propensity for experimentation
> -A preference for learning by doing
> -An appetite for Feedback
> -A high Pain threshold for "Constructive Failure"
> -A conscious mechanism for creating, collecting and disseminating knowledge
> -strategic performance metrics
 
WOW AGAIN!!!  My question remains: do you have a book which provides
the tools necessary to infuse these characteristics/concepts into a
group and/or an entire company? If not, we do.
 
> A new "virtual membership" package is now available via the internet.
> Email me for details. Ask for information about Virtual membership to
> the Creatvity Consortium.
 
Please send me your package as we may be interested in participating.
Brainpower and creativity are valuable resources, but they are being
suppressed by today's methods of managing people. We hope to be able
to contribute to the adoption of methods which will maximize
effective use of brainpower resources.
 
Thanks much, Joan
 
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