PlexusCalls are designed to let you listen in to unrehearsed, spontaneous conversations among leading complexity scholars and practitioners from the comfort of your home or workplace. Featured guests have included such luminaries as: Stuart Kauffman, scholar and a founder of complexity science; Brenda Zimmerman, author and professor of strategic management at the Schulich School of Business at York University, Toronto, Canada; Steven Strogatz, a mathematician known for his discoveries in chaos, complexity and network theories, and author of the widely acclaimed Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order; and Scott Kelso, the founder of the Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences at Florida Atlantic, and the author of the new book The Complementary Nature.

The format is simple. The calls last an hour and are held on many Fridays on a conference line. Plexus Associates receive invitations and instructions to dial in, listen and participate if they choose. To pose questions for PlexusCalls guests or share share your ideas for PlexusCalls, please email prucia@plexusinstitute.org or call Prucia Buscell at 609-208-2930.

If you are not a Plexus Associate and would like to take part in these stimulating conversations and enjoy the other benefits of membership in Plexus Institute, click here to join.

Jun 6 2008

Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS) is concerned with the study of positive outcomes, processes, and attributes of organizations and their members. The focus on positive phenomena includes community psychology, humanistic organizational behavior, organizational development, pro-social motivation and citizenship behavior and corporate responsibility. Scholarship provides a theoretical framework for why the positive processes succeed.
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Jun 20 2008

Peter Block is an author, consultant and citizen of Cincinnati Ohio. His work is about empowerment. Stewardship, accountability and reconciliation. His books include Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used; Stewardship, Choosing Service Over Self Interest, and The Empowered Manager: Positive Political Sills at Work. He also wrote The Answer to How is Yes, and his newest book, Community: The Structure of Belonging, was due in bookstores in May. He is a partner in Designed Learning, a training company that offers workshops designed to build the skills described in his books. He serves on the board of directors of Cincinnati Classical Public Radio, and is the first Distinguished Consultant-in-Residence at Xavier University.
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