March 10, 2008
March 11 - Mary Boone - Reminder
Join Mary Boone to talk about her recent article “A Leader’s Guide to Decision Making” published in the November 2007 issue of Harvard Business Review.
Posted by susan at 01:19 AM
March 06, 2008
Upcoming Events
Complexity as a Leader's Framework for Decision Making
Tuesday, March 11 6:30-9pm
Place: Bethesda-Chevy Chase Regional Services Center, Conference Room A
4805 Edgemoor Lane - 2nd Floor
Bethesda, Maryland 20814
(across from Red Line Metro Bethesda - see directions at right)
Join us for a juicy conversation with Mary Boone who will share ideas based on her recent Harvard Business Review article (November, 2007) which offers a framework that sorts the issues facing leaders into five contexts defined by the nature of the relationship between cause and effect. Four of these—simple, complicated, complex, and chaotic—require leaders to diagnose situations and to act in contextually appropriate ways. The fifth—disorder—applies when it is unclear which of the other four contexts is predominant. According to HBR editor, Tom Stewart, "Leaders' sense-making role is often underplayed. Popular descriptions of leaders naturally emphasize what's heroic and dynamic — the leader as action figure, free if you order a Happy Meal. Naively or willingly (for leaders are no less vain than anyone else, and perhaps more vain), leaders conspire to create this supersize-me image of themselves. But sense-making is fundamental. A leader has to define "So what?" before people can decide "Now what?" When leaders help people come to a shared understanding of the world, all their other jobs get easier. .... and this article puts sense-making front and center where it should be."
Mary Boone is a leading authority on organizational communication, leadership development and large-scale interactive meetings. Boone’s books include Managing Inter@ctively: Executing Strategy, Improving Communication and Creating a Knowledge-Sharing Culture. (McGraw-Hill, 2001) and The Information Edge (co-authored with N.Dean Meyer, Dow Jones, 1987). Another of her books, Leadership and the Computer (Prima Publishing, 1993), was selected as “required reading” for Congress by the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. Successful Meetings Magazine recommended her as one of 25 “hot” speakers in a feature issue.
SAVE THE DATES - UPCOMING DC PLEXUS FRACTAL EVENTS
Tuesday, April 1 - MEDIA RULES - How to leverage the new media world to spread ideas far, fast, and effectively!
4PM Talk followed by reception
The National Press Club First Amendment Room
529 14th St. NW, 13th Floor DC
Join us for a presentation by author, Brian Reich, who will provide a framework for understanding the dynamic world of new media and how ideas and information travel in new patterns. What can we learn about new ways that diffusion of innovation works now? Brian Reich has seen how changes in both technology and society can affect the communications and operations of an organization. He was the first official "liaison" for bloggers at the political conventions last time around and is currently a sought-after consultant for organizations interested in viral marketing.
Thursday, April 10 6:30-9pm
An Evening of Wine and Networking
Join members of the Plexus Board and colleagues in the area for conversation about the latest ideas emerging from the field of complexity and how they apply to organizations and social systems.
3735 Kanawha ST NW DC 20015
(near intersection of Connecticut Ave and Military Road)
Note: There is no charge for any of these events and everyone is welcome (Come and bring your friends!)
lisa@groupjazz.com for more information
Posted by susan at 11:21 PM