Archive Library: PlexusCalls 2010

Bob Lindberg, MD, and Pat Rush, MD, MBA, discuss the role of stories and narrative in patient well-being and the practice of medicine.

Guests: Naomi Stanford and Sharon Benjamin discuss Stanford’s newest book, Organisational Culture, Getting it Right. Stanford and Benjamin are consultants who have facilitated change in large and small organizations in the public and private sectors.

Guests: Rod Collins and Lisa Kimball. Collins’s new book and the challenges of managing change will be discussed.

Guests: Madelyn Blair and Lisa Kimball, both organizational consultants and experienced executives, discuss Riding the Current, Blair’s new book about how to keep abreast of continually emerging new information in your own and other fields.

Guests: Physicist Bruce West and Thomas Clancy, a professor of clinical nursing with expertise in information technology and computational modeling, discuss information, data and knowledge.

Guests Jeffrey Goldstein, James Hazy, and Benyamin Lichtenstein talk about their new book, Complexity and the Nexus of Leadership

What are the long term implications? Environmental scientists Wilma Subra and Richard Charter discuss the impact with Sharon Benjamin, a consultant who has worked with environmental organizations.

How do we learn to think and what are the consequences of our thinking patterns? Scholars Elizabeth Minnich and Alan Barstow explore these questions with consultant Sharon Benjamin.

Birute Regine discusses her new book, Iron Butterflies: Women Transforming Themselves and the World, with Lisa Kimball and Linda Rusch (about 15 minutes of the call was not captured)

How do we think about psychological and social issues, and what’s the best way to examine and describe them?

William E. Smith, PhD, is the author of The Creative Power, Transforming Ourselves, Our Organizations and Our Word,a book that offers a new philosophical lens to help leaders envision a more holistic approach to improving organizations.

How can we prepare for risks that range from extreme weather to financial crises to pandemics and terrorism?

In a turbulent era of relentless change and stress in healthcare, nurses need ways to sustain environments of best practice and radical self-care.

David Rock, co-founder of the Neuroleadership Institute, and James Begun, a healthcare and complexity scholar, discuss new insights on leadership.

Neal Kaufman, M.D., M.P.H., and Adam Kaufman, Ph.D. will discuss how their company (DPS Health www.dpshealth.com ) designs, develops, implements and evaluates internet and cell phone-based behavior change interventions.

Social networks can be wonderfully liberating and creative. They can also be dark, dangerous and mysterious. James Fowler is an internationally known social scientist with a deep understanding of human social networks.

Extraordinary Groups and Ordinary People Guests: Geoffrey Bellman and Lisa Kimball A technical glitch with this call prevents us from posting audio.