02 Jan Ricardo Semler (“The Maverick”)
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A presentation by Ricardo Semler....
A presentation by Ricardo Semler....
This was the first of the CSML Network seminars. It took place on the 29th March, hosted by Coulter Electronics (though, in the end, 'Our Man at Coulter', Robin How was unable to attend!). The impetus for it was my sense of lacking a historical perspective on management development. My interests have tended toward the more innovative approaches (despite its venerable age, SML compared to most management development practice is still considered startlingly new by many) and I wanted to situate them more fully among the other activities and theories that have had their place within the field. Essentially, this was...
At the last meeting of the group that has been involved in forming the Centre's Network, we experimented with using an approach to 'dialogue' in order to further our understanding of 'self managing'. I have now developed this a bit under the label of 'Purposive Structured Dialogue' - not just to have a fancy label, but because I want to develop something different from the Bohm/Senge model of dialogue that is becoming popular. (Anyone wanting more information on the Bohm/Senge approach can get some ideas from Senge's 'The Fifth Discipline'). [member] Part of the interest in 'dialogue' has come from former set...
Self Managed Learning has very much come of age. It is no longer the strange experiment it was perceived to be back in 1979 when the first SML programmes were launched....