Bernie Novokowsky of Calgary, Alberta and Jim Webber of Kensington, NH
invite you to join a small group of very curious consultants and management
thinkers for two mind-blowing workshops.

The May 7and 8 workshop is an exploration of postmodern management and
organization theory with David Boje and Grace Ann Rosile of the Department
of Management at New Mexico State University. David and Grace Ann are
leaders in the postmodern revolution in management thought. They recently
organized and facilitated the organization/postmodern theory track at the
International Academy of Business Disciplines 2000 conference in Las Vegas.

For three days management scholars from around the world focused postmodern
thinking on "Deconstructing Las Vegas." David Boje with co-author Robert
Dennehy are working on the 3rd edition of Managing in the Post Modern World.

Grace Ann Rosile's recent publications deal with restorying organizations,
service learning and management as horse sense.

"Postmodernists reject unifying, totalizing and universal schemes in favor
of a new emphasis on difference, plurality, fragmentation, and complexity.
Postmodernists renounce closed structure, fixed meaning, and rigid order in
favor of play, indeterminacy, incompleteness, uncertainty, ambiguity,
contingency and chaos." (Best and Kellner, 1997). Join us in learning how
to apply this new thinking to organizations.

For an Outline of the Boje/Rosile Workshop Press Here

The May 9 workshop features Anthony G. E. Blake from England who will
describe the origins, theory and practice of "Systematics," a pathway to
higher order thinking. Systematics is the study of systems, their properties
and applications. As a conceptual tool, Systematics draws on the symbolic
meaning of numbers to find pattern, order and meaningful progression in
life's complexity and confusion. The origins of Systematics trace back to
the times when ancients used geometric figures such as the enneagram as
mnemonic devices to remember the steps in a process. Recently there have
been exciting applications of Systematics in organizational design, the
practice of creative management and structuring dialogue.

Anthony Blake studied with the originator of Systematics, John G. Bennett
(1897-1974). He works in management consultancy, publishing, and education,
specializing in transformational methods involving structural thinking and
dialogue. Recent books include Biosphere 2, The Intelligent Enneagram
(1996), and Intelligence Now (1997),


The two workshops are designed to be small and interactive. As we learn, we
will be exploring ideas on developing consulting opportunities and
applications for ourselves and for our presenters.

Workshop #1

Post Modern Management with David M. Boje and Grace Ann Rosile

Sunday, May 7, 2000 at the Harvard Club, Boston

10:00 am Registration and coffee

10:30 am Introduction to the Workshop, Jim Webber

10:45 am Highlights from the recent "Deconstructing Las Vegas" Conference

11:00 am The Postmodern Challenge to the Way Managers Think.

• Storytelling Organizations are hybrids of four narrative frames

• TD Narrative Frames Diagnosis on Line:

• I will send you the results. 

12: 00 noon Postmodern Organization Theory and Chaos Narrative

1:00 pm Delicious Deli Lunch

1:30 pm The Large Scale Organization Change Game Board 

• The ICEND Model ICEND©  

• Interactive, Communicative, Experiential, and Network Development. 

TD Tool Kit has summary of main approaches.

I. ICEND  DIAGNOSIS TOOLS

• ICEND - Narrative Frames Diagnosis

• ICEND - Deconstruction.  

• ICEND - Holon Scan. Beginning the Experiential   

II. ICEND - ICEND© Network Development (ND) PROCESS TOOLS

• ICEND - convene three subsystems in ND.

• ICEND - form internal network team 

• ICEND - summary of the process

• ICEND -  do restorying work

• ICEND -  do ICEND Theater workshops. 

III. ICEND - ICEND© Network EVALUATION Studies

• ICEND NET-SIM - Finally, we do ICEND and NET-SIM assessment studies of large system multi-organizational change efforts. 

• ICEND assessment of collaboration in Competitor Alliances and Supply Chain networks. 

• ICEND (Narrative Frames) post assessment. 

3:00 pm Transorganizational Development vs. Organizational Development

3:30 pm Storytelling as a Change Methodology, The Storytelling Gameboard

4:00 pm Story Deconstruction Techniques

5:00 pm Adjourn for the Day

Monday, May 8 at the Harvard Club

8:30 am Reflections On Our Learning So Far

9:30 am The Practice of Postmodern Management

10:30 am Applications and Connections (linking complexity
theory and postmodernism)

11:30 am Earning With Our Learning

12:30 pm Farewell Deli Lunch

1:00 pm Adjourn



Workshop #2

Systematics with Anthony Blake

Tuesday, May 9

8:30 am Introduction to the Day, Bernie Novokowsky

8:45 am The Story of Systematics

9:15 am The Essence of Systematics

10:30 am The Process of Using Systematics in Real Life Applications

11:30 am Archetypes, Terms, Frameworks, Models

12:30 pm deli lunch

1:00 pm Tony Blake, Bernie Novokowsky and Doug Smith in Conversation
(Frequent asides for the audience's appreciation and elucidation)

2:30 pm Selected Topics of Interest: The TRIZ approach to creativity,
Toponomics (The discipline of arrangement), the Intelligent Enneagram, the Noosphere,
N-logue Processes.

4:00 pm Applications and Connections

4:45 pm Earning With Your Learning

5:30 pm Workshop adjourned

Fees

The fee for these workshops is $750 for all three days or $250/day, ala
carte. The fee includes tuition, parking at the Harvard Club and lunches.
Make checks payable to James B. Webber and send off now to 9 Wild Pasture
Road, Kensington, NH 03833. My e-mail address is jbwebber@mediaone.net, my
phone and fax is (603) 772 5959.

References (www)

David M. Boje: http://cbae.nmsu.edu/~dboje  (This is an extraordinarily rich
and generous website.) Grace Ann Rosile's website is referenced there also.

Anthony Blake; http://duversity.org/bio.html  Also search under diversity,
Systematics, fourth way, the enneagram


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David M. Boje, Ph.D.
Professor of Management
Editor, Journal of Organizational Change Management

Department of Management, MSC 3DJ
New Mexico State University
P.O. Box 30001/Las Cruces,NM 88003-8001
Phone (505) 646-2391 Work
Phone (505) 532-1693 Home Office
Fax (505) 646-1372
Email: dboje@nmsu.edu  (work stuff)
Email: boje@zianet.com  (web stuff)

Home Pages http://cbae.nmsu.edu/~dboje http://zianet.com/boje  (cool page)

TD Gameboard http://web.nmsu.edu/~dboje/TDgameboard.html 
Small Business Toolbox http://cbae.nmsu.edu/~dboje/sbc/sbc.html 
Deconstructing Las Vegas Conference
http://cbae.nmsu.edu/~dboje/deconvegas.html 
Green Accounting http://web.nmsu.edu/~dboje/TDgreenaccounting.html 
VOICE for ALL ANIMALS http://cbae.nmsu.edu/~dboje/sos.html

David Boje and Grace Ann Rosile are professors of organizational development and change at the New Mexico State University of Las Cruces, New Mexico, editors of the internationally reknown Journal of the Organizational Change Management and - for the past few years - coordinators of the organizational theory track of an annual conference of International Academy of Business Disciplines. David Boje has written a number of books on the postmodern management and organization theory, including Managing in the Postmodern World (with David Dennehy see http://cbae.nmsu.edu/~dboje/mpw.html ) and Postmodern Management and Organization Theory (with Gephart and Thatchenkery). [Some of his writings can be downloaded from his website: (http://web.nmsu.edu/-dboje)] He has organized a number of international conferences and developed a simulation game of transorganizational development which includes the model of interactive, communicative, experiential network development (workshops with this game have been held in Harvard Club, consulting companies, universities and knowledge-intensive companies http://web.nmsu.edu/~dboje/TDgameboard.html ). Transorganizational networking is defined as a planned change in the collective relatiosnhips of a variety of stakeholders to accomplish something beyond the capability of any single organization or individual. My own work, says Boje, is critical postmodern, a blend of critical and postmodern theory, with frequent use of deconstruction ways of knowing and studying organizations as complex systems .

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