Inventing Organizations of the 21st Century: Producing Knowledge Through Collaboration

This manuscript examines a Process Handbook (PH) special project using a learning history form. A learning history is an assessment-for-learning, designed such that its value is derived when read and discussed by teams interested in similar issues. Its contents come from the people who initiated, implemented, and participated in the documented efforts as well as non-participants who were affected by it. A learning history presents the experiences and understandings of people who have gone through a learning effort in their own words, in a way that helps others move forward without having to "re-invent" what the original group of learners discovered. The content of the learning history creates a context for conversation that teams within organizations wouldn't be able to have otherwise. This learning history, and the PH project it describes, raises issues around knowledge creation and team structures by looking at how a project team of individuals from university, business, and consulting organizations was effective in creating new knowledge. The team members held different predispositions toward theory development, producing business outcomes, and developing capacity for action. Their complementary, and at times conflicting, interests provided a robust structure for knowledge creation. Knowledge created through this team structure is also multidimensional, having theoretical, methodological, and practical components.

Leadership for Lean Culture Transformation: Introduction to Breakout Session & Five Precepts for Lean Enterprise Change

Presentation on lean culture transformation and agenda/presentation

The Paradox of Leading from the Middle

LAI Annual Meeting presentation, Break Out Sessions 1 & 2, Dana Point, Californi

Strategy Alignment & Deployment through Enterprise Change Capabilities

DoD CPI Symposium presentatio

Economical learning

TypescriptM.A. University of Missouri 1913The great change in our economic life in the last decade has forced its demands for greater skill and more economical methods upon man in every walk of life. These demands have in part been met and satisfied, but much is left to be done by the present generation. Psychology will doubtless contribute toward greater efficiency and economy in every business and profession. In education, the psychologists have made important discoveries; they have given us facts which, when properly applied, will help materially in making our educational system more efficient.Includes bibliographical reference

Austen's Nostalgics

A history of nostalgia: what could this history be but a chimerical one, given that nostalgia seems to denote an inauthentic longing and vague remembrance that would be hostile to the speciŽficities of historical recollection? To reclaim nostalgia as not only a mode of memory but also a mode of history would mean considering it as a strategy—as a response to social conditions and, in fact, as a form of therapy: a winnowing of the speciŽficity, emotional disturbance, and unpredictability of reminiscence into a diluted, comfortable, and serviceable retrospect. By understanding nostalgia strategically, or procedurally—what it does, and how it does it—history and nostalgia might again merge; where they meet is in a series of crucial shifts in the psychosocial effects of mobility in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. They meet at a moment when a pathological relation to physical and psychic dislocation becomes depathologized, when, in other words, a speciŽfic form of traumatic memory is erased in favor of a curative memory that will curiously bear the identical name. The traces of this transformation can be read, and the procedure studied, not only in a set of historical instances but also in narratives that bear its imprint: Jane Austen’s fiction

Doing more with less at Ariens: a leadership and transformation case study

Ariens is a family-owned manufacturer of lawn and snow equipment that designs, manufactures, sells, distributes, and supports its products in the United States, and more recently, internationally. Ariens faced and overcame a number of difficult challenges over the last decade by adopting and sustaining lean production principles throughout the organization, as well as with its suppliers and customers. This case study describes earlier business challenges, the changes that were made, how they were led, and the response of the workforce. The case study focuses on the period from 1998 to 2005, and a post-script updates what has happened up through early 2009. Ariens was studied because industry experts suggested that it was an exemplar of making and sustaining lean transformation. Our research confirms the commendable nature of these changes and their results. This case study details what happened and provides commentary on why Ariens has been successful

Synthesis of quinone pyrano-.gamma.-lactone antibiotics. 1. Synthesis of 9-deoxykalafungin

An efficient synthesis of 9-deoxykalafungin (lb) in six steps from readily available starting materials is described. The key step, in which all of the carbon atoms present in the target molecule are assembled, is the addition of 2-tert-butoxyfuran to 2-acetyl-l,4-naphthoquinone. Hydride reduction, followed by removal of the tert-butyl protecting group and addition of the C-1 alcohol to the unmasked hutenolide, affords intermediate 13, which can be oxidized with argentic oxide to lb in 17% overall yield