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David McAra
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O&P - Sustainable Development Issue
Started this discussion. Last reply by AMED Admin Jan 13.
Management’s Grand Challenges - from Gary Hamel's 'Moonshots for Management
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Penny Walker Sep. 2, 2009.
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Anyone following this in The Guardian? Anyone involved? Seems an important initiative when politics and commerce are so broken. There's a great podcast. Many smart people from diverse positions searching for shared understanding.
David
Get your download here on March 12.
OandPMarchFlyer.pdf
Writing that influences: making waves for development at The Friends Meeting House, Ship Street, Brighton
May 17, 2010 from 10am to 4:30pm
This workshop, the fourth in a series of annual collaborations between several networks, is for people who want their writing to stimulate thought and dialogue and thus have an influence. 4th Annual Collaborative Writing Workshop.pdf
Why come?
Wri…
Great enticement, David
I can feel the torpor slipping off already! Sorry I shan't be able to make Beth's interesting session, but I'll be with you in spirit.
Best wishes. Bob
Let’s shake off the winter torpor and get the AMED programme going!yes"">
I’m suggesting last Thursday of the month starting on 25 March with Beth Duff of The Red Horse Speaks. Some of you will remember an amazing
evening where we learned fr…
Contemporary applications of the “Learning Organisation”
concept.
Call for papers for the May 2010 edition of e-O&P:
Where is it catching on? Peter Senge’s book, The Fifth
Discipline, published in 1990, introduced many of us to the idea of
learning…
David,
I think you've done a great job here - giving voice to our visitors and members alike.
Ta.
Please share any ideas for improving our site or our
services
Love the topic, Rachael. I'm cheering you on. I remember noticing that engineer and ingenuity came from the same root and being surprised and then being surprised at my surprise. Engineering companies should be ablaze with creativity. Probably some…
Anyone listen to More or Less on BBC Radio 4? Seems to me they are doing important work highlighting our general ingnorance about numbers although the tone tends to be rather flippant. No point being angry, I suppose.
Anyway, there's a very interes…
This journal seems to me to be answering the question: What can we do when we don't know what to do? We know we have to do something but it all seems so overwhelming and complex and impossible.
I remember an article from ages ago about the greatest…
Profile Information
- Where do you live and work (City)?
- Aberdeen< Scotland
- What are your top professional skills?
- Helping people to learn
- What kinds of management education and development services are you involved in?
- OD, Leadership and Team development, Safety management Training
- What is your main interest in the AMED network?
- Local meetings, high quality (i.e. honest) dialogue).
- Please share your favourite management development insight or quote.
- Although the internal transformation of human beings is difficult, it is ultimately the only way.
- What kind of person are you?
- 24-7
- More about you (Short Bio or any other details you’d like people to know)
- Recovering engineer, systems thinker,
- What I’d like from the amed network is…
- Inspiration, courage and connections to new thinking about management and organisations. .
- What do you do for your own development?
- Reading, workshops and looking for connections
Comment Wall (34 comments)
- At 2:29am on December 11, 2009,
Chris Tanner said…
- Hi David,
Thanks for the welcome. I've been "internally" consulting for years, but very recently I've leapt into "external consulting"... it was a reference by Halina Brunning, that got me looking into AMED, though I have to admit, so far I'm not really aware of what AMED offers/ I can offer AMED. I'm based in East Anglia, and keen to link up with organisational consultants in the region...and also, obviously, develop my potential outlets for consultancy work.
Chris
- At 1:33pm on December 8, 2009,
Beth Duff said… - Thanks David. Looking forward tobeing part of this community.
- At 11:31am on October 23, 2009,
Steve Hearsum said…
- Hi David,
Thanks for the welcome.
Re my blog, hope you enjoy reading it if you do dig deeper (comments welcome!). Re you question on how I find the time, the answer is that it is 20% labour of love, 20% marketing, 25% critical reflection, 25 % learning and 10% fun. Ironically, I recently submitted a first draft of an article for the latest edition of O&P Writing Futures (which I think will appear on AMED as well) entitled:
"To blog, or Not to Blog, That is the Question….."
Reflections on the use of blogging for developing professional practice and marketing
Might be of interest, given your question?
Best wishes,
Steve
- At 8:33am on October 21, 2009,
Joanne Milne said… - Hi David, thanks for the welcome to your AMED site. I like it & of course I am always in the NE in spirit if not in body! I hope you're well & pls pass on my best wishes to Gordon too when you see him. Thanks again, Jo
- At 2:57am on October 21, 2009,
Danielle Tarren said…
- Hi David, I am delighted to be a new member of AMED. Many thanks for the tip.
I hope fellow members will find my future blog posts interesting and of use to them..
Kindest Regards
Danielle
- At 5:47am on October 20, 2009,
Andrzej Andy Jastrzebski said… - Hi David,
Thanks, not too much sun though.
About my web - it's complicated. Should stay that way for a time being...
best regards,
Andrzej
- At 5:06pm on September 28, 2009,
Vic Baxter said… - David - I'm delighted to be a member. Thank you. I have also pinged details to my address book en bloc and recommended AMED to all in it. It'll be interesting to see what happens. V bst rgds. Vic
- At 9:42am on September 16, 2009,
Linda Atwell said…
- Hi David,
Thanks for the good news and thanks for helping me with my patience work.
I worked for an IT company before working for HP, but I was involved in client assurance/satisfaction more than anything else. I have no formal IT experience but was hired because the hiring manager said, "Linda, you have a lot of nous about you"! And thus began my experience working with IT companies. When Compaq bought the company I worked for and then Compaq and HP merged, I was asked to help with the Knowledge Management pilot which started my love affair with KM and people development.
Looking forward to receiving the article as and when! :-)
Linda
- At 4:08pm on September 15, 2009,
- You would be a superstar if you could! I would really appreciate your effort to do this.
I'll wait patiently (something I'm practicing)! :-)
- At 4:00pm on September 15, 2009,
- Hi David,
Funny! I like that! No, I moved to St. Petersburg in May of this year so I guess you could call it home for now. I have a job interview on Friday. I wrote an article in a journal a few years ago and I was trying to remember the name of it and by doing a Google search I found this site as the article was listed here. I left my copy of the journal in the UK and was hoping to find the full article but sadly I only found the accreditation. But that will do. So, long story short, I decided to sign up on this site.
Cheers,
Linda
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Events
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Facilitation Training (London)
March 16, 2010 from 10am to 4pm – St.ethelburgha's
Only 4 spaces left! Working effectively with local communities is an essential part of getting things done in any neighbourhood. It is also important for the development of better policy and practic…
Organized by Jonathan Elliott | Type: training, course
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Cultural Transformation Consultant Accreditation
April 19, 2010 at 9:30am to April 20, 2010 at 5pm – Newcastle on Tyne Racecourse
Equip yourself to use Cultural Transformation Tools for culture change & mergers, coaching leaders & teams, business audits, employee engagement, customer surveys & branding. Learn how to…
Organized by Guy Tunnicliff, Integration International | Type: consultant, accreditation, training
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Climate Change: Effective Communication Course
April 22, 2010 from 10am to 4pm – St.ethelburgha's
‘Interactive, useful and varied session on how to communicate a complex subject.’ Fran Baron (Brent County Council) ‘Very enjoyable with a great mixture of information and practical discussion.’ Lis…
Organized by Talk Action | Type: course
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'Private Passions', Friday 23 April 2010
April 23, 2010 from 1pm to 4:30pm – the Penn Club, Bloomsbury, London
(Please note that this event has been re-scheduled from 26 February to accommodate Vicky Cosstick's temporary absence in Africa). What writing do you find inspiring, moving, useful or exemplary (or…
Organized by Bob MacKenzie | Type: workshop
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