Inquiries, Indices and Incommensurabilities - Agenda
Time
Event
September 17
1730-1830
Welcome reception, Hotel Lombardy, 2019 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
September 18
0900
Welcome: Peter Allen
0915
Incommensurability and Emergence
: Jeff Goldstein
Cues are not Codes
: Michael Lissack
1015
Group discussion
1045
BREAK
1100
Identifying Priorities, Tracking Progress and Managing Complexity
: Stuart Umpleby
Handling adaptive complexity through intermediate developmental cognitive structures
: Gary Berg-Cross
1140
Mapping solutions and problems in a turbulent world
: Mark Strathern
Practical steps for conceptualization paradoxes: Strengths, limitations and new directions
: Joseph Ofori-Dankwa
1215
Breakout Session
1330
LUNCH
1415
The emergence of dialogue creating conditions for better meaning in management
: William Wells
Developing organizational capacity for leadership in a context of complex challeng
e
: Ellen van Velsor
1450
Noise and information: Terrorism, communication and evolution
: Robert Artigiani
Complexity, organization and managers
: J.C. Spender
1530
BREAK
1545
Jerry Chandler
1630
Breakout Session
1800
David Snowdon and Group Discussion
2000
Dinner at the Washington Hotel, 15th & Pennsylvania Ave., NW
September 19th
0900
Commensurability, Comparability, Complexity, and Some Implications for the Communication of Meaning
: Kurt A Richardson
0945
Incommensurabilites and otherness: Can we communicate across boundaries?
Paul Cilliers
1030
BREAK
1045
Time distance analysis and socio-economic risk-analysis: New tools for comparative analysis
: Karl H. Müller
Commencing with commensuration
: Marshall Clemens
1120
Coevolutionary dynamics of strategic networks: Weak ties and boundary spanning
: Brian Tivnan
Managerial ontologies and meaning-fullness
: Abel Wolman
1200
Breakout Session
1330
LUNCH
1415
Measuring the effectiveness of leadership activity in complex systems
: James Hazy
Epistemic and practical perspectives on industry emergence and market creation as emergent phenomena
: Violina Rindova
1450
Eastern military insights: Some words of wisdom for organizational effectiveness
: Sledge
Structuring learning and innovation in a quality management system: A case study of action research
: Hong-Quei Chiang
1530
BREAK
1545
Hugo Letiche leading group discussion
1700
Peter Allen: Summing up