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I look forward to meeting you soon on a Friday or a Wednesday before I have to retreat to the FRIAM diaspora in July. I apologise for demeaning this setting in this way, but..... due to a series of unruly circumstances, Penny and I suddenly find ourselves living for the next month in a tiny unfurnished casita on the banks of Acequia Madre. If anybody had in their attic, basement, or garage, left over from an earlier life, or that of an offspring, a battered microwave and/or coffee maker they could spare for a month, I would be in your debt. No phone until friday at the earliest, so email the only way to reply. N Nicholas S. Thompson Professor of Psychology and Ethology Clark University [hidden email] http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/ [hidden email] > [Original Message] > From: <[hidden email]> > To: <[hidden email]> > Date: 6/12/2005 10:00:30 AM > Subject: Friam Digest, Vol 24, Issue 9 > > Send Friam mailing list submissions to > [hidden email] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [hidden email] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [hidden email] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Friam digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Introducing myself to FRIAM (Bruce Abell) > 2. RE: Introducing myself to FRIAM (Stephen Guerin) > 3. Simon Levin awarded 2005 Kyoto Prize (Stephen Guerin) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 10:59:42 -0600 > From: "Bruce Abell" <[hidden email]> > Subject: [FRIAM] Introducing myself to FRIAM > To: <[hidden email]> > Message-ID: <00de01c56ea6$fe885060$[hidden email]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > To the FRIAM group: > > Let me introduce myself as a new member of this mailing list. > > I am Bruce Abell of Santa Fe Associates International, a small consulting complexity came in 1991 when I moved to Santa Fe to become administrative vice president of Santa Fe Institute. Prior to that I had been a senior fellow doing technology policy research at Hudson Institute in Washington, DC, a technology consultant with The Keyworth Company, an assistant director of the White House Science Office, and a communications manager at National Science Foundation, etc. > > At SFI I worked closely with my co-vice president, Mike Simmons, and together we formed the SFI Business Network, which I oversaw until I left SFI in 1997. Mike and I, along with Howard Sherman, then formed Santa Fe Center for Emergent Strategies (currently Santa Fe Associates International at www.santafeassociates.com). Mike is a physicist whose excellent scientific taste was, in my mind, largely responsible for the quality and daring of the Santa Fe Institute programs during its first dozen years. Howard was a philosophy professor who had gotten sidetracked, reluctantly, into several spectacularly successful business careers. In one of his several retirements he discovered Santa Fe Institute and immersed himself in trying to understand complexity and its implications and limits for organizations. He succeeded quite well. In the mid-1990s Howard and I organized two large, early conferences co-sponsored by SFI and a company of his on "complexity and business," one in San Francisco and one in London. > > When the three of us set off on our own in 1997, our goal was to explore and apply concepts from complexity to organizations; that is, to help them benefit from some of the adaptive processes inherent in systems in nature. Under Howard's particular leadership, we shifted away from pure complexity approaches to understand the role of ideas and what might be thought of as "directed evolution" in human enterprises. Howard and I both described these approaches in our respective books, "Open Boundaries" by Howard Sherman and Ron Schultz, published in 1998, and "Re-Imagine Your Business for Breakthrough Results" by Bruce Abell, published in 2002. > > >From 1997 to 2001 we conducted several dozen seminars in Santa Fe on complexity and business, out of which we developed some consulting projects. Over that time we developed a methodology for "fixing" organizations that had become mal-adaptive, or just plain outdated, called "diagnostics for emergent strategies." The diagnostics are described in detail in my book. > > SFAI coordinates a network of member companies in different countries that are interested in applying complexity thinking to businesses there. I look forward to interacting with people in FRIAM. > > _______________________ > Bruce Abell > Santa Fe Associates International > 7 Morning Glory > Santa Fe, NM 87506 > Tel: 505 660 5251 > www.santafeassociates.com > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: tm > > ------------------------------ > |
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Nicholas,
we have an extra coffee pot at SFEDI office at 624 Agua Fria, where Redfish is located. You are welcome to use it. We'll be there at 8:00 a.m. tomorrow Monday. Cathie Catherine E. Zacher, President Santa Fe Economic Development, Inc. "The problems of today cannot be solved with the same thinking that created them...." -----Original Message----- From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]]On Behalf Of Nicholas Thompson Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2005 12:13 PM To: [hidden email] Subject: [FRIAM] Welcome Bruce, interalia Welcome aboard, Bruce! I look forward to meeting you soon on a Friday or a Wednesday before I have to retreat to the FRIAM diaspora in July. I apologise for demeaning this setting in this way, but..... due to a series of unruly circumstances, Penny and I suddenly find ourselves living for the next month in a tiny unfurnished casita on the banks of Acequia Madre. If anybody had in their attic, basement, or garage, left over from an earlier life, or that of an offspring, a battered microwave and/or coffee maker they could spare for a month, I would be in your debt. No phone until friday at the earliest, so email the only way to reply. N Nicholas S. Thompson Professor of Psychology and Ethology Clark University [hidden email] http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/ [hidden email] > [Original Message] > From: <[hidden email]> > To: <[hidden email]> > Date: 6/12/2005 10:00:30 AM > Subject: Friam Digest, Vol 24, Issue 9 > > Send Friam mailing list submissions to > [hidden email] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [hidden email] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [hidden email] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Friam digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Introducing myself to FRIAM (Bruce Abell) > 2. RE: Introducing myself to FRIAM (Stephen Guerin) > 3. Simon Levin awarded 2005 Kyoto Prize (Stephen Guerin) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 10:59:42 -0600 > From: "Bruce Abell" <[hidden email]> > Subject: [FRIAM] Introducing myself to FRIAM > To: <[hidden email]> > Message-ID: <00de01c56ea6$fe885060$[hidden email]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > To the FRIAM group: > > Let me introduce myself as a new member of this mailing list. > > I am Bruce Abell of Santa Fe Associates International, a small consulting complexity came in 1991 when I moved to Santa Fe to become administrative vice president of Santa Fe Institute. Prior to that I had been a senior fellow doing technology policy research at Hudson Institute in Washington, DC, a technology consultant with The Keyworth Company, an assistant director of the White House Science Office, and a communications manager at National Science Foundation, etc. > > At SFI I worked closely with my co-vice president, Mike Simmons, and together we formed the SFI Business Network, which I oversaw until I left SFI in 1997. Mike and I, along with Howard Sherman, then formed Santa Fe Center for Emergent Strategies (currently Santa Fe Associates International at www.santafeassociates.com). Mike is a physicist whose excellent scientific taste was, in my mind, largely responsible for the quality and daring of the Santa Fe Institute programs during its first dozen years. Howard was a philosophy professor who had gotten sidetracked, reluctantly, into several spectacularly successful business careers. In one of his several retirements he discovered Santa Fe Institute and immersed himself in trying to understand complexity and its implications and limits for organizations. He succeeded quite well. In the mid-1990s Howard and I organized two large, early conferences co-sponsored by SFI and a company of his on "complexity and business," one in San Francisco and one in London. > > When the three of us set off on our own in 1997, our goal was to explore and apply concepts from complexity to organizations; that is, to help them benefit from some of the adaptive processes inherent in systems in nature. Under Howard's particular leadership, we shifted away from pure complexity approaches to understand the role of ideas and what might be thought of as "directed evolution" in human enterprises. Howard and I both described these approaches in our respective books, "Open Boundaries" by Howard Sherman and Ron Schultz, published in 1998, and "Re-Imagine Your Business for Breakthrough Results" by Bruce Abell, published in 2002. > > >From 1997 to 2001 we conducted several dozen seminars in Santa Fe on complexity and business, out of which we developed some consulting projects. Over that time we developed a methodology for "fixing" organizations that had become mal-adaptive, or just plain outdated, called "diagnostics for emergent strategies." The diagnostics are described in detail in my book. > > SFAI coordinates a network of member companies in different countries that are interested in applying complexity thinking to businesses there. I look forward to interacting with people in FRIAM. > > _______________________ > Bruce Abell > Santa Fe Associates International > 7 Morning Glory > Santa Fe, NM 87506 > Tel: 505 660 5251 > www.santafeassociates.com > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: tm > > ------------------------------ > ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9:30a-11:30 at ad hoc locations Lecture schedule, archives, unsubscribe, etc.: http://www.friam.org |
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