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Gordon Rudow, founder of Bonfire Communications, interviewed his mentor David Sibbet recently on his Webmaster Radio Show, Fired Up. Gordon wanted David to share his responses to the current economic turmoil and how organizations are and might respond. He also invited David to share some practical take-aways about how organizations can support a learning orientation in their cultures. It’s a half hour interview. Sit tight through the over-the-top intro music and rah rah framing. Gordon is a serious student of organizational dynamics and valued part of the Grove network of collaboration oriented consulting firms.

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Kare Anderson was a Coro Fellow back in the 1970s when David Sibbet was directing the San Francisco Center. They’ve been tracking each other since. She wrote a little homage to David on her wonderful “From Me to We” blog, netting in perspectives on how everyone can be more collaborative. Enjoy this post and explore all the other ones at From Me to We.

From Kare's Me to We Blog

I attended the Institute for the Future’s Ten-Year Forecast retreat at the new Cavallo Point Conference Center at Fort Baker recently, called “Superstructing the Next Decade.” The Grove is an affiliate of IFTF and a partner all during the 1990s when The Grove and IFTF were researching groupware and its implications for organization. Our mapping strategies have become a mainstream tool at IFTF as a consequence. We were invited this time to share our work with RE-AMP (the Midwest consortium of 100+ NGOs and 15 foundations working to clean up an eight-state energy infrastructure), as a living example of contemporary “superstructing”—defined as “Su`per`struct´ v. t. 1.To build over or upon another structure; to erect upon a foundation.” (You can see a post on RE-AMP on my blog or click here for the RE-AMP web site).

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