CEO Honour Role: Wilfred Brown Former CEO of Glacier Metals, a heavy manufacturing firm & long-time user of requisite concepts http://bit.ly/GOWilfredBrown
Application of RO in Mining and Heavy manufacturing A special page featuring the application of Requisite Organization to design and manage in Mining and Heavy Manufacturing organizations http://bit.ly/ROMiningandManufacturing
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February Blogs:
Who we are: our differences and what we hold in common By Ken Shepard http://bit.ly/GOPresBlog
Focusing more on values as a way of defining negative temperament in human capability By Herb Koplowitz http://bit.ly/GOHKBlog
Writing for Managers By David Creelman http://bit.ly/GODCBlog
La aplicación de la OR en minería y manufactura pesada By Harald Solaas http://bit.ly/HSBloges
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News Items:
Warren Kinston announces new website THEE: the Taxonomy of Human Elements in Endeavour Warren Kinston was recruited by Elliott Jaques to join BIOSS, was introduced to the levels of work complexity and went on to use levels concepts to develop a values taxonomy that promises to be useful in diagnosis and implementation of requisite concepts http://thee-online.com
Report: GO Society Summit, October 22-25, 2010 in Toronto at the BMO Institute for Learning
- The GO Board and 25 of the Society's most senior practitioners met to explore the state of our field and to set priorities for future work.
- Michelle Carter, Jan Ake Karlsson and Paul Juniper were elected to the Board. Thanks to Jack Fallow and Judy Hobrough for long years of board service. They now move to the GO Advisory Council.
- Next GO World Conference is planned for Canada in late 2012 (either in Toronto or Calgary).
- GO University will include face-to-face clinics, on-line learning, and mentoring -- with strong commitment by most senior practitioners to staff professional development programs
- Increased focus on the manager's needs in the context of ever changing external environments
- Recruitment of younger practitioners
- Building active global networks for manager practitioners, academics and consultants
- Support for practitioner writing for publication
- Building private project collaborative work areas on the GO site for those signing Participation Agreements.
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Toward an integrated theory of designing and managing organizations based on the concepts of levels of work, levels of human capability, accountability and other concepts by Wilfred Brown and Elliott Jaques.
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