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Private Passions of the 18 December 2020 AMED Writers' Group
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Ruth Elizabeth Slater Dec 21, 2020.

The Business of writing, with Nick Yapp and Bob MacKenzie (AMED Writers' Group, 19 June 2020)
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OST2021: Re-energising through intergenerational engagement to address the climate emergency (Re-scheduled because of COVID-19)

October 8, 2021 at 4pm to October 10, 2021 at 1pm – The Old Stable, Bore Place

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Creative Climate Conversations, with Bridget McKenzie at ZOOM

February 19, 2021 from 1:15pm to 4:30pm

Your invitation: Please join in this vital conversation, facilitated by Bridget McKenzie, founder of Climate Museum UK (CMUK). The workshop will offer some imaginative ways to approach and explore the Climate & Ecological Emergency, its impacts on you, your communities and organisations. This event is made possible through the initiative of AMED’s Shelagh Doonan, and is part of AMED’s programme exploring Urgent Societal Issues. We’re extending the invitation beyond the AMED Writers’ Group…See More

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Julie Allan commented on Bob MacKenzie's event 'WHAT'S MINE TO DO? Generating our pathways to climate and ecological action'

"I'm doing an hour on poetry with my equally poetically-interested colleague Sharon Charlton-Thomson. Just an hour to re-source and refresh with some poetry about the planet and all on it (including we humans). All these events are free,…"

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e-O&P 2021 and beyond

A space for collecting and discussing ideas about the publication of our evolving journal. See More

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"Looking forward to the conversations about this."

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WHAT'S MINE TO DO? Generating our pathways to climate and ecological action at around the world

March 4, 2021 all day

4 MARCH 2021Deadline for proposals: 31 January 2021Dr Alison Whybrow has shared this invitation to this free eventFollowing the resounding success of our previous two 24-hour conversations, our third global conversation is set to be even bigger and better. We’d love you to get involved!We are inviting you (yes, that means you) to host a session wherever you are in the world. This time we are creating a scaffold and…See More

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WHAT'S MINE TO DO? Generating our pathways to climate and ecological action at around the world

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Bob MacKenzie commented on David F McAra's group e-O&P Winter 2020 - Editorial Group

"Many thanks, Ned Our authors will be pleased! I hope all's well with you. Best wishes. Bob"

Jan 22

Morag Ormiston commented on Bob MacKenzie's event 'CLI Webinar: Work after Lockdown: What have we learnt from organisations’ crisis response to the pandemic?, with Dr Jane Parry, Southampton Business School'

"Sorry, I have clients booked at that time but I'm interested in the findings."

Jan 18

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CLI Webinar: Work after Lockdown: What have we learnt from organisations’ crisis response to the pandemic?, with Dr Jane Parry, Southampton Business School at Anywhere, via Zoom

January 20, 2021 from 2pm to 3:30pm

Dr Christina Schwabenland is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83463849447?pwd=VEh3S3dDVDVIaW0vVjZFOWRLejZwUT09 Meeting ID: 834 6384 9447; Passcode: 251630Abstract: Over the course of 18 months, the ESRC Work after Lockdown research is looking at how lockdown-driven working from home is changing how people want to work in the future, as well as organisations’ responses and…See More

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CLI Webinar: Work after Lockdown: What have we learnt from organisations’ crisis response to the pandemic?, with Dr Jane Parry, Southampton Business School at Anywhere, via Zoom

January 20, 2021 from 2pm to 3:30pm

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"Thanks Shelagh for organising this, and thanks Bridget - looking forward to the conversation and exploration."

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Creative Climate Conversations, with Bridget McKenzie at ZOOM

February 19, 2021 from 1:15pm to 4:30pm

Jan 14

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Bob MacKenzie posted an event

Creative Climate Conversations, with Bridget McKenzie at ZOOM

February 19, 2021 from 1:15pm to 4:30pm

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Ruth Elizabeth Slater commented on Bob MacKenzie's event 'Invitation for AMED members to contribute to the Spring/Summer 2021 edition of e-Organisations and People'

"Hi, Erica and Fizza, I am interested in participating in this as a critical friend and perhaps a contributor. The links to the Invitation to Contribute and Notes for Contributors are flashing 'unsafe' and I wonder if the links are…"

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Invitation for AMED members to contribute to the Spring/Summer 2021 edition of e-Organisations and People at virtual

January 3, 2021 at 6pm to January 10, 2021 at 7pm

Your Invitation from Erica and Fizza Dear AMED members, As edition co-editors, we’d like to invite you to send in your proposals for contributions to the Spring/Summer edition of e-O&P 2021. We're looking at stories of "Living with catastrophe" which complicate the usual narratives of survival-as-overcoming. Drawing from our own background in gender studies as well as…See More

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Where do you live and work (City)?: I live in Southampton and work almost anywhere

What are your top professional skills?: fresh thinking, writing, coaching, mentoring, critical friendship, facilitating, action learning

What kinds of management education and development services are you involved in?: Promoting purposeful and effective learning and development in organizations, especially through the strategic uses of writing and conversations.

What is your main interest in the AMED network?: education, networking, inspiration, collegiate discussion/debate, collaboration

Please share your favourite management development insight or quote.: I'm currently intrigued - and exercised - by W Ross Ashby's (1956) Law of Requisite Variety. This states that:

'The larger the variety of actions available to a control system, the larger the variety of perturbations it is able to compensate'.

What, if anything, does this mean for our work in developing people, developing organisations, especially in the light of current thinking about chaos and complexity?

What kind of person are you?: Morning

More about you (Short Bio or any other details you’d like people to know): I am an independent organizational thinker, consultant, coach, mentor, facilitator and writer. My strategic uses of writing, and the conversations I facilitate, promote the interaction of rigorous thinking and practical application. In this way, I aim to inform, refresh, energise, inspire and encourage others to go on and do something new and satisfying.

Previously, I gained wide ranging professional and managerial experience in the public, private, not-for-profit and higher education sectors. I am a Director and Council Member of AMED, and Principal Consultant with Bob MacKenzie Associates. I am also Professor of Management Learning with the International Management Centres’ Business School, and Set Adviser on their Senior Executive Action Learning (SEAL) doctoral programme.

My work and travels have taken me to Africa, India, Europe and the USA, as well as throughout the UK. I am currently working on a book called ‘Writing as Strategy.’

What I’d like from the AMED network is…: I'd like AMED to continue to grow, flourish, adapt and contribute in what I see as its 3rd Renaissance period.

What do you do for your own development?: I write, read, talk, walk the dog, interact with keen minds and seek out convivial company. Another favourite quote - variously attributed - is "Sometimes I just sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits".

Your Business Website: http://www.mackenzie.explication.org.uk/

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Slower writing and reading for an age of distraction?

Slower writing and reading for an age of distraction.pdf

Here are some of my emerging ideas about the potential for slower writing and reading in an age of distraction. I'd love to hear what you think of them. Best wishes. Bob

Posted on June 18, 2015 at 11:43 — 4 Comments

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At 11:23 on October 15, 2020, Fizza Hasan said…: Thank you, Bob. That's a great idea.

At 11:30 on August 13, 2020, Heather Day said…: Thank you Bob.

I was a member of AMED previously and I am glad to be back here now.

Looking forward to the session next Friday

Best wishes

Heather

At 8:57 on February 19, 2020, Dr Tony McNulty said…: Thanks Bob - actually I have never left AMED and have indeed been a member since the 1980s when Marguerite Greatorex?? used to run meetings at the Polytechnic of Central London. What I have never done before is signed onto the AMED website. This post certainly ages me. And latterly I find myself increasingly citing Mark Twain: "I have nothing against retirement, so long as it does not interfere with my work."

At 5:49 on May 25, 2019, Brian Watts said…: Hi Bob, what a delightful day yesterday. I really enjoyed the amount of laughter that we shared,that was really good for my soul! Thank-you. Photo done!

At 3:55 on March 14, 2019, Bill Critchley said…: Buy the way I didn't write this at 3.54 but at 9.55 - it can't even get the time right!

At 3:54 on March 14, 2019, Bill Critchley said…: Yes I do find it hard to navigate. Apparently my article is on it somewhere but I can't see how to find it, although David McAra is attempting to help me. When does the full virtual publication come out?

At 12:15 on November 4, 2018, Ilaria Boncori said…: Dear Bob (and colleagues),

Many thanks for having me, I hope my little article is of interest and I look forward to being part of this community.

Best,

Ilaria

At 2:37 on November 21, 2017, Ben Gibbs said…: Hi Bob ... thanks for your welcome last month.

One month in though, and I'm confused about how to ensure I see what's going on. I've yet to receive any form of notification or email from the network, although I guess there has been stuff happening.

My issue is that I don't have the time to remember to login or search, but rather need to set up notifications for the areas that interest me. How do I do that?

Yours

Ben

At 2:17 on September 6, 2017, Johnnie Moore said…: Will do!

At 15:10 on August 14, 2017, Robert Cserti said…: Thank you for the warm welcome, Bob!

Profile Image posted, and soon I will add more update. I'm also looking forward to explore what is the general impression about SessionLab and its open source facilitation library.