Unity in Diversity - Talk cites and links

References from my talk at the Washtenaw County Baha'i Center,

Oct 12, 2007.

The slides from my talk are available in a format that is probably only readable using Internet Explorer. (it is a fairly large file (7 meg) and in a format ("mhtml") that can probably only be read using Internet Explorer as a browser, but you do not need Powerpoint.

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Cites and References from the talk:
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Slide 2 - Photo from "Ollieda" on flickr.com (also at the top of this page!)

Slide 3 - "There can be no doubt"

Slide 4 - Baha'is Believe

Slide 6 - National Institutes of Health

Slide 7 - Airline Accidents (74% of on first day)

ICU accident rates (Dr. Pronovost)

Slide 8 - US new $1 coin

Slide 14 - Public Health Competencies

Systems Dynamics Society

Slide 15 - M. C. Escher - wikipedia

systems merge ...

Slide 16 - M. C. Escher - Waterfall

Slide 17 - Magic Dice ("non-transitive dice")

Grand Illusions website (actual dice vendor)

Slide 18 - Demo of Dice

(Excel Spreadsheet will be coming)

Slide 20 - Getting To Yes

Example of the Orange

Slide 24 - Theory X and Theory Y of organizations

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_X_and_theory_Y

Slide 26 - Harvard Professor Amy Edmondson and fear at work

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/faculty/aedmondson.html

Slide 27, 28 - "Vertical" and "Horizontal" cybernetic loops

Slide 29 - Albert Einstein or Marilyn Monroe?

(picture credit: That picture is the work of researcher Gregory T Huang, from New Scientist's 31 March 2007 issue at newscientist.com, subscription required. The original covers a larger portion of the torso and the effect is much more pronounced.

Here's a link to an extended discussion of what this implies for conflict generation in society, and some other hybrid image links.

Slide 31 - US Army Leadership Field Manual (FM22 -100)

Slide 32 - High Reliablity organizations

http://www.highreliability.org/

Many links also

"Honey, I lost the nuclear weapons"

and

Positive Organizational Psychology cross-refernces

Karl Weick and "mindfulness"

Slide 34 - National Institutes of Medicine

Crossing the Quality Chasm and other links

Slide 35 - What public Health is about

Slide 36 - TS Eliot - Choruses from 'The Rock'

Slide 40 - Home mortgage disaster

Slide 43 - "Healing is not a transitive verb"

Slide 44 - Making "N+1" larger than "N"

Slide 48 - Positive Deviance

Slide 49 - Positive Organizational Scholarship

Slide 50 - Videos ("Making the Impossible Possible")

( hot links in this post 'There is a way out of this mess")

Please not the advice in read about how to view the video.

The book "Making the Impossible Possible"

Slide 53 - School of Information and "Technology-Mediated Collaboration"

Slide 55 - "We desire but the good of the world ..."

Slide 58 - friends in winter

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Other Nifty Thing - How those really tall cranes build themselves.

"How stuff works"

Psychosocial factors, social isolation, and depression

When you come back to me again

(On how closed loops tend to dissolve and merge the parties into one and blur the direction of causality.)

Technical paper (MIT) on high-reliability organizational culture

It's on the Social Science Research Network Electronic Paper Collection at
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=305718

Clothesline: