Workshop (submitted by Christine Whitney Sanchez)
David Cooperrider - The AI Summit - virtual seminar - free
How a Single Management Innovation Changes Everything
Sponsored by: David Cooperrider & Christine Whitney Sanchez
Date: Oct 30, 2009
Location: everywhere by phone, United States
Description: 9:00am PDT, 10:00am MDT, 11:00am CDT, 12:00pm EDT, 21:00 UTC
Free registration http://tinyurl.com/yjgnxmv
Description
What does the future of management look like to you? Cast your mind forward a decade or two and ask yourself: How will tomorrow’s most successful companies be organized and managed? What new and unorthodox management practices will distinguish the vanguard from the old guard?
These are questions being raised by leading thought leaders such as Gary Hamel about the future of management who posits that we may have reached “the end of management.” Management, in this view is out of date and like the combustion engine is a technology that has largely stopped evolving. Today’s call is for massive innovation—not just product innovation, process innovation, or business model innovation—but management innovation. What organization today is not looking to enable an enterprise wide capacity for spontaneous renewal, to respond to the de-scaling effects of new technology, to adapt to new ultra-low cost alternatives, to more naturally bring out the very best in people, and to set the fires of innovation ablaze?
In this conversation, David Cooperrider shares how new technologies like the Appreciative Inquiry Summit (AI) give us a glimpse not only into exciting and powerful change methodologies, but into a new 21st century approach to management that is not top down or bottom up; nor is it outside in or simply inside out. In many ways it’s an approach that combines and preserves the best of each of these into something Cooperrider calls “constellation leadership” where everything is managed in and through configurations of the “whole”.
In this session David Cooperrider looks at advances in our human capacity to do planning, designing, and innovating in groups of 100s to 1000s of people. He shares stories of the newest AI Summits with companies such as Fairmount Minerals and Wal-Mart and addresses fascinating questions about “change at the scale of the whole” through stories of his recent work with whole cities (Cleveland’s Green City on a Blue Lake economic summit) and whole countries (Costa Rica’s recent AI Summit). In the end Cooperrider returns to the question: “does management seem stuck in a time warp?” His answer: not when you see how a single management innovation can change everything!
Target Audience: All
Level of Difficulty: Introductory
Fee: No
Contact Information:
Christine Whitney Sanchez
Collaborative Wisdom & Strategy
Email: cwhitneysanchez@gmail.com
Main Phone: 480.759.0262
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