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I take it that this list is in its formation stage. I trust that it will
survive the other stages and quickly reach the perfoming stage without a
great deal of strife.


In order to aid the process, I will introduce myself as a visiting
instructor in Communication. My interests in are rhetoric, leadership,
and change within organizations. I believe that my ability to ask
provocative questions and "listen" to the contributions from list's
members is likely to be my contribution to the listserv's membership.

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Great Optimism,

Dutch Driver
Dept. of Communication
McMurry University
Abilene, TX
ddriver@cs1.mcm.edu

I've just joined the List in my role as facilitator for a group of
industrial managers in the Hampton Roads, Virginia region. Purpose of
the group is to learn best practices from each other, and that means
that they first must learn a common framework of qualtiy management
concepts. I guess it amounts to developing a learning organization on a
large scale.

Most of the managers are eager to learn but not to be taught. They like
having a structured frame of reference to discuss issues of
productivity, but have no time for lengthly curriculums and seminars.
The feedback loop of value for what we do is extremely short. I conduct
monthly workshops as a means of presenting ideas in a live setting, and
then distribute the discussion material as notes via email or fax. We
have a web site to collect all of the material and hopefully develop
into a tool for discussion among participants.

Anyone wishing to benchmark productivity issues or join our discussions
is welcome.

Seth Pillsbury
www.hrqmc.com
hrqmc@pilot.infi.net
Virginia Beach, Virginia