Academic
By Jake Heller
change, jaworski, organization, regrowth, theory of learning
In Book Reviews, Pseudo-Academic on April 2, 2009 at 8:57 am
Senge, P., Scharmer, O.,C., Jaworski, J., Flowers, B.,S. (2005). Presence: An exploration of profound change in people, organizations and society. Double Day, New York, NY.
ISBN: 0-385-51624-x $27.95
In their text, Presence, Senge, Scharmer, Jaworski, and Flowers present an incredibly thorough and thought provoking theory of change based on awareness and understanding of relationships in living systems. The theory is supported by and illustrated through robust and rich qualitative data comprised of the experiences and events in the lives of the authors, influential, business, spiritual and political leaders globally.

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Opinion
By Jeffrey Callen
In Opinions on January 12, 2010 at 9:14 am
Technology, specifically the Web, is a grand theodicy of the early 21st century. In the face of evil and societal failures it gives birth to new identities— souls— for individuals, nurtures the ever so important Libertarian freewill, grants such individuals the power to do great evil, and recognizes postmodern natural laws— a stable ‘natural’ medium/experience of the world from the level of computer code and network protocols to human institutions such as Facebook®.

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News & Events
By Jeffrey Callen
In Announcements, General, News & Events on January 11, 2010 at 2:32 pm
Hello colleagues.
I believe that most of you expressed some interest in this as some point in time… if not feel free (as always!) to ignore this message. Last year Brandon Ching created thenewstate.com as an experiment in PA blogging. Though many of us hoped to participate, well… life got in the way. We simply did not generate enough content on a regular basis to… well… consider it successful.
BUT… Brandon is working on an updated site and we are going to try it one more time. There are two reasons for this:
1) We still think it is a good idea. Considering the evolving communication industry, it would behoove us to get some practice in alternative (rapidly becoming dominant) media forms. And writing non-academese is cool.

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