Knowledge Ecology Fair 98 Presentation Abstracts

Knowledge Ecology Fair 98
Presentation Abstracts

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Growing Generative Leadership Capabilities:
a Knowledge Ecology Strategy,
an interactive, collaborative inquiry facilitated at KE Fair 98 by Bill Veltrop

Tomorrow's surviving organizations will be radically different from today's organizations. How we think and speak about organizations, knowledge, leadership, etc., will have dramatically shifted in tomorrow's world. We're moving into very new and different territory.

Growing a true "knowledge ecology" and growing "generative leadership" are important ways of exploring this new territory. And, they are two sides of the same coin.

This offering:

Accepts "perpetual white-water" as an organizational given.

Focuses on "growing generative leadership capabilities" as a most intriguing, pragmatic, and highly leveraged path forward.

Takes a "Leaders-R-Us" attitude: If not us, who? If not now, when?

Describes leadership as a field effect and provides "lenses" and "distinctions" designed both to help us "see" that field and also to explore who we can be in that field.

Process:

This will be a semi-structured interactive inquiry addressing specific questions designed to yield practical ideas (Designs, interventions, tools, strategies, actions, practices, programs, etc.) on how to grow generative leadership capabilities in a turbulent business environment. The inquiry will be augmented by an emerging collection of "consciousness-enhancing lenses and distinctions.