David and grace Ann Welcome the TD Gameboard Square Masters. We tabulated Email Responses to answer the question "What TD Squares you want to master?" We will use the JigSaw Workshop Design Format. That means people listed in particular squares with asterisks (*) will be our TD Square Masters. They are volunteering to study those particular squares in depth, read everything in that square, and do small group introductory 10 to 15 minute presentations on the themes of the square. Format can be a panel of Square Master Experts or a Small Group Presentation with reading responsibilities divided among the soul mates you decide. We have put an asterisk by one to three squares we will rely upon you to MASTER in the workshop sessions. That means we may call on you to do a piece of presenting or facilitation. For example we will call on Roland Livingston to help us in a closing exercise and Kim Kleason to take us into "restorying beyond the Gameboard." If you want a different set of priorities or we missed your email to us, please contact us ASAP.

Objective: A two day program designed to delivery a very sophisticated level of understanding of the importance, complexity, and best practice approaches to local and global TD consulting theory and practice. This seminar is unique in that if offers a balanced content that is equally divided between traditional approaches such as reengineering and cost optimization supply chain integration and the more innovative approaches that involve ecological and social accountability beyond immediate network participants.

Survey Results. Most people said they had already had plenty of #5 (AI), knew of reengineering and search conference (#2). First item listed was TD (#9), second was restorying (#8), and third was split between 7, 11, 12, & 13. We will therefore focus on those squares and skip the rest. No one chose reengineering or community organizing to stretch into. Some people listed different items in questions 2 (what do you want to master) and Q3 (what do you want to help us in) - so we listed the joint set. We both want to thank the Pepperdine Education Doctoral Participants and staff for their feedback and recommendations. We have tried to balance your recommendations in the degree of depth and coverage we outline below. If we missed anything you wanted to see, please let us know.

Instructions to Everyone: Build a Notebook prior to Seminar - Please make copies of each of the 14 TD Gameboard overview pages (press here) including the summaries on each of the 14 squares, each of the Tables (press here), and copies of the key papers listed in each workshop outline below. Please organize your own notebook with section dividers or tabs for each session outlined below and the 14 main pages. To help you find everything you need, we put in active web links in the outline that follows. Click it and print it, three-hole punch, and assemble. Again you do not read everything, but we will ask you to turn to certain sections, pages, and charts during the seminar. Bring it with you.

If you are not assigned, then please contact us. If you have too many Master Square assignments, work it out with your fellows and let us know. Everyone should end up as SQUARE MASTER in at least ONE TD Square and a few volunteered for THREE. Everyone is responsible for reading each of the TD Gameboard square overviews and printing out the TD Square Recommended Readings Notebook (see instructions below). Instead of assigning another book, we have provided all necessary readings on the web, which you can download according to the Squared you have chosen to MASTER. In sum, in JigSaw we network the readings; we do not read everything, we have key node Square Masters who act as guides and mentors to their parts of the TD Gameboard.

Workdshop Focus - The focus is on the interdisciplinary application of large system change approaches beyond the dead OD focus on the internal enterprise. Traditional OD approaches, we believe are rooted in a model (or paradigm and ontology) that saw the single firm as the center of its own universe, with everything outside the firm being in the category of "environment." This is what we call TD1 "target models" of the firm as the sun, with concentric circles spreading outward. We will quickly move to what we call a TD2 model (or paradigm and ontology) where the focus is on the community or even the entire planet of networks of multiple organizations and stakeholder groups, such as competitor alliances, supply chain networking, customers, employees, subcontractors, environmental auditors and various interest and stakeholder group large system change consulting. TD1 is an "individualism" model focused on "free market" classical organization-centered economics. TD2 is a "communitarian" and ecocentric model focused on the social and ecosystem level, on the planetary system, not one planet, not even the Sun. We think the move from traditional OD to TD is like the Copernican revolution and our hero Galileo.

The content is positioned to complement other Pepperdine transorganizational programs. Our approach to TD will be presented through a mixture of theory and "real life" applications. The practical content will be delivered by experiential pedagogy. Participants will have the opportunity to learn and apply advanced TD consulting concepts with a focus on application to their own unique consulting areas.  Thanks and we look forward to your playing TD Gameboard with us.

TD GAMEBOARD CONSULTING APPLICATIONS:

1. TD ICEND Network Training and NET-SIM - We also offer TD ICEND Network Training for Multi-organization Stakeholder systems attempting to just understand their Network Dynamics. This approach is suited to strategic planning in multi-firm environments. We use a combination of domain story gathering sessions throughout the Network, story-sharing sessions, and mapping of NETWORK SIMULATIONS we call NET-SIM. With NET-SIM we analyze complexity and chaos collective dynamics of large networks. We uniquely combine domain story networking analysis with NETWORK SIMULATION transaction pattern analysis. We assume TD ICEND and NET-SIM has applications to the chaos and complexity dynamics of Supply Chain Networks.

 

2. TD ICEND Theatrics Workshops - Grace Ann and I offer "TD ICEND Theatrics Workshops" and labs to corporations, community organizations, educational institutions as well as supply chain networks, industries, and other multi-stakeholder groups who want to restory and rescript their networking relations and collective dynamics. Our TD ICEND Role Playing Workshop is based upon Theater of the Oppressed and work in Postmodern Theatrics, including TAMARA. We start by collecting repetitive stories of problematic dynamics, coach stakeholders on how to stage them to a stakeholder audience, and do stop-action critical postmodern self-reflective "spec-actor" critique, and end with staging restoried scriptings of improved collective dynamics. Our aim is to move from "spectacle theatrics" to more "festive theatrics." Our approach uses the insights from the above TD Gameboard Squares.

 

3. TD INTERVENTION EVALUATION STUDIES - Finally, we do ICEND and NET-SIM assessment studies of large system multi-organizational change efforts. Our approach is to collect multiple readings of a system change effort over time to give clients and consultants and understanding of the on-going unfolding impact of their network change strategies. Applications include the assessment of collaboration in Competitor Alliances.

 

4. GREEN TD - Grace Ann and I teach environmental auditing and accounting methods with a focus on TD networks. While environmental auditing practices are developed in ISO14000 firms and in European firms and colleges, it is not a widely understood practice in the United States. Grace Ann and I have done several workshops in Juarez, Mexico.

TD Program Schedule

Day One

1.1 TD Overview 8-9:00 AM

FOR NOTEBOOK: EVERYONE PRINT THE FOLLOWING:

• TD Square 10- History of TD work (press here).
• TD Square 10- TD Definitions (press here).
• TD Center Square - TD Letter (press here).

1.2 TD Holonic Theory with experiential training exercises. 9:00-10:30 AM

Objective: Teach an overview of the evolution of holon theory from inception to the current day. Participants should understand: 1) strategic and tactical importance of whole/part thinking, 2) role of holons in TD network theory and practice, 3) Holon's role in embedded networking, and 4) establishing holonic competence.

• TD Square 10- Boje, D. M. "Holon and Transorganization Theory" {September 30, 1999a} (press here)

1.2 Integrating TD theory and practice with ghosts of OD 10:30AM - Noon

Objective: Teach the formation and integration of TD networking strategy with OD strategy. Participants should understand: 1) Difference between TD and OD strategy and praxis alternatives, 2) the impact of transorganization on person and organization networks, 3) Various ontologies and epistemologies used in TD work, 4) TD trends.

• Transorganization Development INTRO   *Marcelle Penn *Mary Wayne Bush *Rob Sutton *Gary Gibson, Robert Le
• Square Masters - Please prepare 15-20 minute intro and overview of TD Square 10 "Transorganizational Development." Can be panel or divide up content amongst yourselves. Focus on items below.

• TD Square 10- Boje, D. M. "Transorganization Development and the Death of Organization Development {October 3, 1999b} (Press here).
• TD Square 10- The TD ICEND model of network development (press here) for overview and press here for definitions. Review basic 3-subsystem model (press here).
• TD Square 10- Basic differences between market forces/individualism and communitarian TD, including postmodern critique of communitarian (press here). From mono-logic to poly-logic networking.
• INTRO FESTIVAL & SPECTACLE *Evelyn D. Robertson, *Lawrence Peers, *Paul Tompeter *Jim Richardson
• Square Masters - Please prepare 15-20 minute intro and overview of TD Square 11 "Festival and Spectacle." Can be panel or divide up content amongst yourselves.
• TD Square 11- Vasquez, Tim "Whoever dies with the most toys wins!" (press here). Great primer on over-consumption and it ties also to downsizing/reengineering square on TD Gameboard.
• TD Square 11- 1999 Spectacles and Festivals of Organization: Managing Ahimsa Production and Consumption. Book under review at Harwood Academic Press. Chapter 1 definitions of spectacle and festival (press here); Chapter 1 Tables contrasting spectacle and festival concepts (press here).
• TD Square 11- Background - Read a few chapters of Debord, Guy 1967 Society of the Spectacle (press here).

LUNCH BREAK

1.3 Integrating TD with Popular Multi-Organization Change approaches 2:00-3:30.

Objective: Teach the formation and integration of TD strategy with billion dollar consulting firm data, and less than billion dollar consulting disciplines. Participants should understand: 1) How 11 billion dollar (plus) consulting firms apply TD, 2) the role of TD in less than billion dollar approaches ranging from community organizing, PDPD, action research, to the more postmodern TD options, 3) differing ontological and epistemological assumptions of Action Research approaches used among smaller consulting firms.

• TD Square 10- Boje, D. M. "Who Rules Large System Transorganizational Development (TD) Consulting?" {October 6, 1999c} (press here).
• TD Square 10- Please Review KMPG Consulting approaches (press here). What does CEO Stephen G. Butler KPMG International focus on in terms of TD?
• TD Square 10- Boje, D. M. "Storytelling and the Collective Dynamics of Transorganizational Networking" {October 7, 1999d} (press here).
• TD Storytelling Organization Gameboard- Digital Storytelling Theater (press here). Print copy of Storytelling Organization Theory Gameboard (press here).
• Note: Marcelle Penn - You are designated Square Master expert-to-be here. No presentation, be available for interaction.
• TD Square 4- Action Research Square Masters (*Mary Wayne Bush *Roland E. Livingston *Nancy Pluzdrak *Emilee Young and *Lawrence Peers who indicaties "Cooperative Inquiry approaches of Heron and Reason ... use these in my

teaching practice" will connect AR with TD and Storytelling.) -
• Square Masters - Please prepare 15-20 minute intro and overview of TD Square 4 "Action Research." Can be panel or divide up content amongst yourselves. Focus on overview of #4 and links to other squares you see.

1.4 Advanced Narrative Practices and TD Theory 3:30-5 PM.

TD Restorying Square Master - Objective: Teach the relation of narrating to TD approaches. Participants should understand: 1.) New TD trends in combining network development with storytelling and network simulations for design and ongoing change assessment, 2.) Packaging TD storytelling consulting in your own practice, 3) understanding of available TD2 case materials, and 4) middle ground alternatives between TD1 and TD2. This lesson will also cover some environmental auditing trends in Europe and the US.

• TD Square 9- Restorying Square Masters Intro - *Ed Hanna *Marcelle Penn*Kim Kleasen *Patrisia Duffy-Atkins and Kim Kleasen will lead "strategies going beyond the TD squares"
• Square Masters - Please prepare 15-20 minute intro and overview of TD Square 9 "Restorying and Narrative Therapy" Can be panel or divide up content amongst yourselves. Focus on Hintzsche and Scott items below and ties to various levels of stakeholder theory.
• TD Square 9- Advanced TD and Narrative theory - Narrative Therapy and TD (press here). Please review Part I - Restorying; Part II -Narrative and Stakeholder Methods; Part III - Post-Graduate Level.
• TD Square 9- Differences of Appreciative Inquiry, Restorying, Emery-Search Conference, and Hopewell's Congregation approaches to storytelling by Boje, Alvarez and Schooling (press here).
• TD Square 9- Example - "Learning with The Natural Step: A Jointly Told Tale of the Early Stages, 1988-1994." by Hilary Bradbury March 1998 (press here).
• TD Square 9- Comparison of four interdisciplinary approaches to narrative and organization including Narrating Organization, Storytelling Organization Theory, Equivalency Theory, and Embedded Narrative approaches (press here).
• Storytelling Organization Theory (press here).
• Boyce, Mary on Storytelling Organization Theory (press here).
• TD Square 9- TD2 EXAMPLE - "Preliminary Stakeholder Analysis for Research in Rice Farming Systems in Cambodia" by K. Hintzsche, P.G. Cox- 1997 (press here).
• TD Square 9- TD2 METHOD BOOK ON WEB - "Appreciation-Influence-Control (A-I-C) A Self-Organizing Process" by William E. Smith 1998 (press here).

EVENING SESSION 7-9 PM

Sci Fi Case and Management with Horse Sense - Book Excerpts by Grace Ann Rosile - This is a more advanced treatment of deconstruction that has not as yet been applied to TD. Objective - some fireside storytelling with Grace Ann: 1.) Strategy-as-storytelling, 2) difference between a perceptual "lens" or paradigm versus "restorying/recreating. 3) Wag the Dog dynamics, and 4) why "Horse Sense" is not a metaphor - ways of knowing discourse.

• TD Square 9- "Restorying and the Case of the Sci-Fi Organization" Academy of Management Meetings 1998 - Rosile (press here). Restorying steps - Rosile - (press here).
• TD Square 9- Example - Barry & Elmes (1997 AMR article) [press here]. Focus on collective tale restorying of "Gardening" case.
• TD Square 9- "Managing with Ahimsa and Horse Sense" Mar 16, 1999 In Spirit At Work Journal (press here) for article.
• TD Square 9- "Management: Common Sense or Horse Sense?" March 1999 (press here).
• TD Square 9- "Discourse from the Horse's Mouth" by Grace Ann Rosile, copyright 1999. Transcript of Presentation at the Language and Organizational Change Conference May 15, 1999, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (press here).

Day Two

2.0 Review of Day One - Complete what we want to or move on 8:00AM - 10:00AM We will start with questions and answers, then Daphne will tell us postmodern stories.

• TD Square 12- Postmodern Storytelling and applications by Daphne.
• TD Square 9- Boje - Alternative Postmodern Spectacles: The Skeptical and Affirmative Postmodernist (Organization) Theory Debates (press here)

2.1 Integrating TD with Supply Chain Management Consulting 10:00AM-Noon

Objective: Teach the formation and integration of TD strategy with Supply Chain networking strategy. Participants should understand: 1) Supply Chain Network Principles, 2) trade-offs between cost-optimization and ecological/social costing approaches, 3) grassroots assessments of Supply Chain Network external costs, and 4) global trends in TD applications to Supply Chain Networking. This session will also cover simulation studies that can be used in conjunction TD Supply Chain Network consultation.

• TD Square 13- INTRO to Network Organizations - *Ed Hanna *Diane Altman-Dautoff *Kim Kleasen * Gene Miluk *Chris Young with Supply Chain consulting, Aerospace, and Cyber War Games TD-Consulting implications.
• Square Masters - Please prepare 15-20 minute intro and overview of TD Square 13 "Network Organizations" Can be panel or divide up content amongst yourselves. Focus on relating four popular approaches of #13 to Supply Chains. One of you try the NuThink Inc. download and critique (press here).
• TD Square 13- Boje, D. M. "Chaos and Complexity in Supply Chain Transorganizational Development Networking" {October 9, 1999e} (press here).
• TD Square 13- NuThink Inc. Consulting Firm Story of relation of "grassroots involvement" and "simulation study" - (press here), and (press here), and finally (press here) to have their three page storyline.

2.2 Background on Contesting Frameworks in TD - Nickerson Gardens Case Study and Role Play - 2PM - 3:30 PM

Objective: Teach the best practices and process for the development of grassroots TD practices and strategies. Participants should understand: 1) importance of alternative consulting frameworks, 2) stages of the

Process of community organizing, 3) assessment tools, 4) storytelling tools, and 5) characteristics of bottoms up excellence in TD work.

• TD Square 7- Review of Goffman Frameworks *Marcelle Penn *Diane Altman-Dautoff *Evelyn D. Robertson *Emilee Young *Patricia Duffy-Atkins
• Square Masters - Please prepare 15-20 minute intro and overview of TD Square 7 "Goffman Frameworks" Can be panel or divide up content amongst yourselves. Focus on relating #7 to Nickerson Gardens Case.
• TD Square 7 -Gameboard page (press here). If you do not know anything about community organizing review Alinsky/Cortez sections of TD Gameboard Square #1.
• TD Square 7 -Boje, David M. 1993 "Haves, Have-nots, and the Loyola Marymount University Bridge: Myths of the Great Rebellion of April 29th, 1992." A Loyola Marymount University "President's Day: A Homecoming for the Mind" speech, Saturday March 27, 1993 (press here)
• TD Square 7 -Explore Nickerson Gardens Oral History Project (press here). The two door screens are not finished but some of the links do work.
• TD Square 7 -Review the Timeline (press here).
• TD Square 7 -Review Grassroots Large Systems Change Project to Nora King (press here) - Will the Bill Gates strategy work? Can restorying work here?
• TD Square 7 -"Postmodern Détournement Analysis of the Popular Mechanics Spectacle using Stories and Photos of the Festive Community Life of Nickerson Gardens" by D. Boje, September 2, 1999 (press here). Take a while to load, but it is something I want you to explore.
• TD Square 7 -Brown, William 1998 "The spectacle of information: Part One" That's Entertainment!" Web document (press here) for complete text (last modified May 27, 1998). Brown makes the point that web and print media articles like Popular Mechanics are part of the commodified spectacle of mass-entertainment.

2.3 Working with Contesting Frameworks in TD - Nickerson Gardens Case Study and Theater of the Oppressed, a Postmodern Play - 3:30-5 PM

Objective: Participants will be encouraged to do some postmodern theater (some stop-action improvisation on a TD encounter between residents and city planners applying multiple consulting frames). Participants should understand: 1) how postmodern theatrics applies to TD change work, 2) Theater of the Oppressed work, 3) difference of modern and postmodern theatrics, 4) How to conduct community theater including stop-action restorying and script changes to try out new stakeholder masks and patterns of relating. The Participants will be encouraged to do some postmodern theater (some improvisation theatrics on a TD encounter between residents and city planners applying multiple frames).

• TD Square 12 -"On Stage- "Postmodern Theater"
• TD Square 12 -"Postmodern Theatrics INTRO to Improvisation and Theater of the Oppressed - We will be doing a Theater of the Oppressed TD Theater based on the Nickerson Gardens Case. Our directors and co-actors with the rest of us will be

*Marcelle Penn *Kim Kleasen *Evelyn D. Robertson *Rob Sutton *Nancy Pluzdrak They will act out the first act, then we will join in, and do the stop action rewrites.
• TD Square 12 - Tamara and other Postmodern Theatric(s) Boje (press here) for storytelling organization theory work (press here). More one Tamara (press here).
• TD Square 12 TD Workshop ICEND steps. There are six we will use in this exercise.

21.3 Close - 21st Century TD Issues and Challenges 7-9 PM

Objective: Expose Participants to TD futures vision and inspire them to assimilate their seminar learning into their own consulting practice. Point out barriers and advantages. Participants will be led through a mock visioning session to raise future issues, concerns, potentials, and developments, leading to a statement of propositions.

Closing Exercise - Open Space Mapping of our Postmodern Journey: A retrospective Restorying in TD theory and Praxis - led by Open Spaces TD Square Master- Roland E. Livingston - suggest we use lots of paper on the wall and get into storying our journey, past, present, and future as TD professionals.

Learning Objective: Restory TD: Why Change Fails In traditional TD/OD? Consider basic-starting assumptions of traditional models: 1) we just don't have control over the forces affecting us, 2) we ignore politics and budget realities, 3) ignore "external environment," 4) we try to "fit" the external environment onto a dartboard, 5) get stuck in out-moded "organization culture" concepts and models, and 6) we do not address large system dynamics of chaos and complexity.

How can we move to new conceptualizations and practices? How can we personalize what your have learned to your organization? 1) We have a voice, 2) we can develop experiences such as theatrics that can have ripple effects in large system change, 3) we can combine network cost accounting with environmental and social accounting, and 4) we can restory to revision and rescript network dynamics. We can be like Galileo and move beyond single organization target-model OD and beyond linearity-thinking Ice Cube (unfreeze, move, refreeze) models to an understanding of collective networking dynamics from a communitarian and ecocentric vantage point. At least that is our dream.

Copyright 1999 TD ICEND consultants David Boje and Grace Ann Rosile, All Rights Reserved. Any Technical Comments or Problems contact: webmaster dboje@nmsu.edu