To Steve Iman:
sciman@csupomona.edu
I wish we could put our whole concept
humanistic innovation approach - to fit your teminology
on our website. Unless there is a sponsor, we cannot - unfortunately.
Your description fits nicely into the
Creative Morphological Approach -
so please have a look at our website. Of course the website is basically a
sales tool - I guess that is acceptable - we don't receive any tax money
whatsoever. We have to be ingenious to do with little.
The objective is: Everyone a genious!
So what is a genious?
1. What is not genial: Sending a space craft + men to the moon funded by
an almost indefinite taxed based money source - including the waste that
went with it. What is more: The people who developed the fundamentals
that made the March into Space possible were no longer with the party
during implementation. The implementors were not the genious'. The genious
was with the researchers who laid the foundation.
Did you know that propulsive power was next to unknown in USA early
durning WW2? Did you realize that an astronomer developed the whole concept
of propulsive power?
Here you have the element of geniality - researching in an unknown field,
with little funds. 350k$ saved the company Aerojet from bankrupty during
the war - later Aerojet received government orders from a newly founded
organization: NASA.
2. A genious: August Piccard, designing and building the first diving
equipment to reach the deepest spot in the ocean. No government funding,
so cost efficiency was of high priority. He also was the first to reach the
strathosphere.
3. Not abusing/ wasting resources is of high ethical value, whether it
concerns minerals, or human beings. So what you are trying to get accross
to your students fits perfectly with our mission of
Eliminating the Aberrations of Human thinking (or at least reduce them)
at the
Morphological Institute Canada (CanMor).
We do this by training people how to approach unfamiliar and potentially
dangerous environments and problem clusters. The focus is on "unfamiliar -
uncharted - strange". The ability is to make decisions that don't backfire,
or burn someone else.
Emil Zahner
Morphologist, Innovation Coach
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/canmor/index19.htm
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Steve Iman:
sciman@csupomona.edu wrote (part only)
I'm a humanistic psychologist who starts with listenings
skills and interpersonal competence, sets a climate for learning community,
composes autonomous team projects related to diversity and multiculturalism
in organizational settings. I want students to build interpersonal skills,
become more self-aware, more confident in taking risks, to experience team
synergies, and to know how to deal with conflict and feel more comfortable
taking responsibility. I want to cover aspects of communications,
motivation, perception, teams, quality with which students can identify
first at their own stage of developmenent... in their own teams and lives;
seeing how all this fits in their future worlds is secondary to my way of
thinking. I'd much appreciate any recommendations.
Steve Iman
sciman@csupomona.edu
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Steve Iman:
sciman@csupomona.edu