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G3: RELEVANCE and RIGOR

Cloudy Skies: Mental Models about Global Warming
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John Sterman, Professor of Management, MIT Sloan School

Leadership and Moving from "I" to "We": Transformational Learning Experiences, Building Collective Trust, and Dialogic Leadership in AA, Formal Teams, and Professional Ed. Associations.
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Clyde Croswell, James Leslie, Chris Wagoner

Interweaving Multiple Types of Action Research in Co-leading Organizational Transformation.
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Alain Gauthier and Bill Torbert

Making Systems Thinking Accessible Using Systems Archetypal Mapping.
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Marilyn Herasymowych and Henry Senko

Exploring the People Practices Behind Innovation.
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Katherine Holt

The Human Drivers of Organisational Success. Research Proposal from Unilever.
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Arjan Overwater

Learning in Multi-disciplinary Teams: Lessons from Marine Band Combos - Rigor and Relevance in Qualitative Research Methods.
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Chris Kayes, Clyde Croswell, (Col. USMC, Ret.), and CWO Patricia R. Brown

Beyond Rigor A Search for New Practices for Thriving in Chaos and Complexity.
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David Koehn & Rima Shaffer

Organizational Learning in the very early phases of organizations (especially prior to and the first three years after the founding of an organization).
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Christoph E. Mandl

A model of org. learning that integrates scenario thinking, ROI, capacity building, and knowledge management.
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Mebs A. Loghdey, Paul Alexander, and Julie LeRoux --University of Cape Town, South Africa, and Old Mutual Insurance Company

Reflection and Unexpected Learnings in Project LEAD Research: Insights to Carry Forward into Design Possibilities for Phase II of this multi-member collaborative research on leadership development.
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Susan C. Hull, Carol Gorelick, and several SoL company liaison officers

From Consultancy to Practice to Research in Building a Learning Organization: The Experience at Wachovia Corporation.
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Ellen Pruyne and Michael Pergola

Research Collaborations in the SoL Sustainability Consortium: Report and Discussion.
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Hilary Bradbury, Don Seville, John Carroll, Joe Laur (by phone), and two company participants

Systems Thinking -- a conversation.
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Fred Simon, Prasad Kaipur, Jim Ritchie-Dunham

New challenges and learning from this large-scale collaborative research project. with academic-practitioner action-learning teams, focused on a national study of workplace stress and aggression in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
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Rita Kowalski, Dan Kowalski, Ellen Kollar, US.Dept. of Veterans Affairs, Joel Harmon, Dan Twomey, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ., Lyle Yorks, Columbia Univ., Joel Neuman, SUNY at New Paltz

Nursing leadership at UMMC embarked on a comprehensive leadership development strategy utilizing action research and reflective learning...The original strategy was to improve employee motivation or climate by focusing on differentiating leadership competencies.
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Paulette Seymour, VP Christine Klucznik, VP Ambulatory Services UMass. Memorial Medical Center, Vince Pelote

Lessons on Intercultural Leadership Development. How to use cultural differences to develop more effective leaders ? A study which provides a framework and recommendations on how to develop leadership in different cultures.
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Arjan Overwater

Analysis of Unilever's new way of learning and growing. This study should provide evidence about what most managers call 'soft initiatives'. We believe passion and personal growth is key for a company's performance.
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Arjan Overwater

Boundary Spanning Activities in Organizational Learning: Preliminary explorations of the usefulness of computational modeling as a tool to generate insights.
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Jim Hazy, Brian Tivnan, David Schwandt

Young Leaders' Forum in Asia: Learning about Leadership, Abundance, and Growth.
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Karen Ayas, Phil Mirvis

Questions for academics: 1) How might we re-introduce the work of the father of action science and social network analysis (JL Moreno) into research? 2) Can a research method be developed to further our understanding of the Biology of Cognition and Biology of Love? For consultants, the session will address the question. Can we see the workplace as a fragile social ecology and thereby fundamentally reconstitute what we refer to as consultancy?
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"What are the competencies needed in our organization in order to support and create the hyper-growth forecasted for the next 3-5 years?" and related questions.
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Betty Ann Rafuse and Doug Lawson, Sanofi-Synthelabo Canada Inc.

Global implementation of eCRM System - impact on a whole organization.
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Marty Finkle and Mark Foster, AT&T

"Bringing 'Organizational Learning' into change interventions." Research from the GWU Center for the Study of Learning .
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Margaret Delaney Gorman, David Schwandt, also Olson, Vincent, Ayvaz, Pandit, Sashkin, Casey (GWU)

"a sustainable way": transformative leadership development in an emerging era of environmentally sustainable and socially responsible business practice..
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Brad Rassler, Outward Bound

Human Drivers Of Growth: Beyond Dialogue.
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Sharon Drew Morgen, Decision Connection, Inc.

Some Essentials of Organizational Transformation: Executive Summary Of A Sol Working Paper
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Barry Sugarman, SoL