APPENDIX A
Resources
CHAPTER 1: BUSINESS LANDSCAPE
SAS
SAS, the leader in business analytics and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market, helps customers at 45,000 sites make better decisions faster. SAS’s innovative business applications, supported by an enterprise intelligence platform, give customers THE POWER TO KNOW®.
Business Intelligence Network
The Business Intelligence Network™ focuses on business intelligence, performance management, data warehousing, data integration, and data quality, serving these communities with unparalleled industry coverage and resources.
CHAPTER 2: MODELS FROM SCIENCE AND NATURE
Living the Field
Living the Field is the only organization in the world to synthesize the discoveries of the very latest frontier science into a coherent theory and a program for modern integrated living.
Noetic Sciences Institute
The Institute of Noetic Sciences is a nonprofit membership organization that conducts and sponsors leading-edge research into the potentials and powers of consciousness—including perceptions, beliefs, attention, intention, and intuition. The institute explores phenomena that do not necessarily fit conventional scientific models, while maintaining a commitment to scientific rigor.
Collective Wisdom Initiative
Scientific research into the phenomenon of collective wisdom is in its infancy. However, a large number of studies have been conducted over the past 30 years that directly or indirectly suggest the nature and effects of collective consciousness and provide a solid starting point for the scientific study of collective wisdom.
CHAPTER 3: EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION
Robert Knowlton
Robert Knowlton is a developmental coach. Individual development does not happen in a vacuum. It is only through feedback, reflection, and planning that a person, team, and organization will develop. Using advanced communication skills and proven developmental leadership tools, Knowlton helps leaders emerge into their most aware and conscious selves. It is then their job to create the world as they would like it to be. He can be reached at [email protected].
Conversation Agent
Valeria Maltoni helps businesses understand how customers and communities have changed marketing, public relations, and communications—and how to build value in this new environment. As a communicator, she specializes in marketing communications, customer dialogue, and brand management. Maltoni has come to define modern business as a long and open conversation.
CHAPTER 4: COLLABORATION
Resolution Works
As organizations become flatter, more virtual, and more innovative, people need to become self-directed while working within complex webs of collaboration toward common goals. Tools that create partnership and quickly resolve problems in the face of conflict are essential. We need to prevent communication problems. Instead of staying angry and stuck, we need to quickly resolve conflict and return to partnership andproductivity.
Advent Management
John Reddish and his associates at Advent help entrepreneurs, top executives, and their teams who want to master growth, transition, and succession get results faster, less painfully, and in ways that work for them. Reddish is a member of the National Speakers Association and the International Coach Federation. He can be reached at 800-726-7985 in the United States, 01.610.388.9335 internationally, or at [email protected].
Eric Brunner
Eric Brunner, SPHR, Manager in the Learning and Development Division of Temple University’s Human Resources Department, designs and facilitates competency-based performance management, communication, diversity, conflict resolution, and policy-based antiharassment/antidiscrimination training programs. He can be reached at [email protected].
Dr. Marie Amey-Taylor
Dr. Marie Amey-Taylor, Director, Human Resources Department, Learning and Development Division, Temple University, is co-coordinator of the university’s Leadership Academy and specializes in leadership, management, and supervisory skill development and interpersonal skills including diversity, communication, team building, and conflict resolution. She is also qualified to administer the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. She can be reached at [email protected].
OnTrackAmerica
Michael Sussman is the founder of the nonprofit organization OnTrackAmerica, which is helping the North American rail industry and government collaborate across agencies, companies, regions, and stakeholder groups. Sussman and his consulting company, Strategic Rail Finance, apply collaborative principles to financing the most challenging situations, creating funding breakthroughs for their clients that incorporate multiple lenders and government entities. He can be reached at [email protected].
CHAPTER 5: INNOVATION
Borderless Thinking
Borderless Thinking LLC™ helps organizations and individuals break free from business-as-usual thinking to reimagine what they can accomplish in today’s highly competitive marketplace.
Stages of Innovation
Stages of Innovation (SOI) provides solutions for successfully entering new markets, introducing new products, evaluating customer attitudes. . . . whatever customized approach will work to increase business.
Brandon Rud Design
Brandon Rud Design offers a variety of design services including interior, landscape, theatrical, and event design.
CHAPTER 6: ADAPTABILITY
Alignment Rules
Alignment Rules provides solutions that unveil areas of organizational, departmental, or group misalignment within a company or group of companies.
CHAPTER 7: LEADERSHIP
The Group Leadership Intensive
The Group Leadership Intensive is a residential, five-day program for those truly interested in learning how to lead a group or organization. The five days includes a wide range of experiences where participants practice creating interventions and creative strategies for meeting group goals and freeing the intelligence and energy of a group.
LeaderStrengthSystems
LeaderStrength™ Systems, Inc., is a learning and performance organization that focuses on three specific areas: management skills, leadership development, and partnering with learning and performance professionals to expand their expertise and leadership skills.
Standing Stone Center for the Healing Arts
Standing Stone Center for the Healing Arts offers guidance and leadership in personal transformation. Dr. Michael Madden facilitates the discovery of your authentic purpose through individual counseling and group process. He enhances his counseling with training and facilitation in the areas of meditation, ritual, and ceremony. His services are offered in person, via phone and e-mail, or are combined with organized travel and wilderness experiences.
NTL
NTL Institute delivers powerful learning solutions for organizations, leaders, and practitioners who have a clear stake in accelerating individual, team, and organization effectiveness. For over 60 years, NTL Institute has provided training and learning to tens of thousands of individuals and organizations around the world. The NTL global member faculty includes over 300 members who are leading consultants, practitioners, and researchers at the forefront of innovation in organization and leadership development, interpersonal skills and human development, group dynamics, and diversity and inclusion.
Bernhart Associates Executive Search, LLC
Bernhard Associates is a nationally recognized and leading recruiter in direct marketing.
Genesis Consulting Partners
Genesis Consulting Partners is a senior management consulting firm that provides executive search and related services to both corporate and individual clients in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries.
The GEM Survey
The GEM Survey™ has been developed to help users make significant improvements almost immediately. Unlike many assessment tools that focus on leadership styles, personality types, and subjective interpretations, the GEM focuses on specific, repeatable behaviors, behaviors that can be learned quickly and practiced.
CHAPTER 9: HOLACRACY
HolacracyOne
The purpose of HolacracyOne is to spread the practice and assist others in learning about Holacracy. HolacracyOne offers half-day seminars and deeper, multiday workshops around the world.
The team at HolacracyOne is actively searching for organizations interested in adopting Holacracy and consultants interested in servicing those organizations as well as taking Holacracy to their existing client base.
CHAPTER 10: POSSIBILITIES
The Corporation—Video
The Corporation explores the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant institution of our time. Part film and part movement, The Corporation is transforming audiences and dazzling critics with its insightful and compelling analysis. Taking its status as a legal “person” to the logical conclusion, the film puts the corporation on the psychiatrist’s couch to ask “What kind of person is it?” The Corporation includes interviews with 40 corporate insiders and critics—including Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, Milton Friedman, Howard Zinn, Vandana Shiva, and Michael Moore—plus true confessions, case studies, and strategies for change.b
Please refer to Chapter 10 for details on the following links.
Holacracy in the World
Edgewalkers
Organization on Purpose
Sustainability: Ben Freeman
Healing: Antanas Vainius
Gratitude: John Castagnini
Empowerment: Julie Roberts, Ph.D.
Ending Poverty: Jim Riordan
Personal Mastery through Healing
The next businesses offer healing work that aligns the body, mind, and spirit.
PA BodyTalk Center BodyTalk™ works gently to restore the body’s ability to heal itself, safely bringing the systems of the body back into balance, reestablishing the body’s lines of communication, and facilitating true healing. www.pabodytalkcenter.com
Essential Healthcare Dr. Russell acknowledges the mind-body connection, which substantiates the belief that the mind-body can heal when it has no interference. Dr. Russell’s practice is based on removing this interference and reinstating homeostasis, which enables people to heal on all levels of their being. www.ehealth-center.com
Barbara Friling Barbara Friling facilitates healing and self-empowerment through multiple healing modalities. She says that by honoring your being and embracing your personal power, you allow yourself to be open to the opportunities and expansive possibilities of your own self-healing. www.bridgesofhealing.com
A Call to Conscious Evolution
Climate change, economic disparity, educational inequities, geopolitical tensions—these mounting concerns are symptoms of a world that is out of balance. Together we can shift consciousness by co-creating a new way of being.
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