April 10, 2009 by David Jamieson
As consulting has expanded and morphed into so many different types of services being delivered under the same banner, it begins to dilute any meaning in the banner. What is consulting? To some it’s providing expertise or facilitating some process. For others it’s providing extra workers to staff a project or taking over a certain […]
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March 23, 2009 by David Jamieson
Making sense of what occurs in human systems or how they change or the most effective way to lead them or which design is most productive is fraught with difficulty. Yet, nothing is more important in today’s world for creating healthy organizations and healthy people. Because we lack a lot of convincing evidence, based on […]
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February 6, 2009 by David Jamieson
 Working in human systems is full of landmines and individual triggers. It makes serving in any professional helping role much more than just mastering the technical aspects of “help”. For many years some groups (OD consultants, coaches, therapists and others) have worked with, and tried to include in their development, the concept of “use […]
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April 11, 2008 by David Jamieson
“Through reflection, he (the practitioner) can surface and criticize the tacit understandings that have grown up around the repetitive experiences of a specialized practice, and can make new sense of the situations of uncertainty or uniqueness which he may allow himself to experience†                                                                                            Donald Schön  Learning about ourselves and about our execution in practice […]
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April 4, 2008 by David Jamieson
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world†                                                                     Mahatma Gandhi In preparing for adaptability, I discussed the use of the situation and the use of theory and experience… the importance of having a ready repertoire of principles and frames for use in interpretation and action selection. This, however, raises the […]
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March 30, 2008 by David Jamieson
“One of the hallmarks of the professional, therefore, is his ability to ‘take a convergent knowledge base and convert it into professional services that are tailored to the unique requirements of the client situation”                            Donald Schön                                                    quoting Edgar Schein ((Schein, E. and Kommers, D. (1972). Professional Education: Some New Directions. Hightstown, New Jersey: McGraw-Hill […]
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March 21, 2008 by David Jamieson
“In school they told me practice makes perfect, then they told me nobody’s perfect, so I stopped practicing”                                                                                                                 Steven Wright How do we learn to be good practitioners of anything? Good results come from masterful practice. In most professions and professional endeavors, it’s ultimately the execution that counts. The delivery, of the knowledge […]
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