Resources: Papers
Rethinking Leadership in an Information Era
by Anthony V. Zampella
How do leaders prepare organizations for change in this high-speed Information Age? Although this might appear to be the reasonable question to pursue, a more fundamental and urgent question surfaces: How is the Information Age — with its perpetual saturation of information — reshaping what we mean by leadership itself? In this paper Anthony Zampella explores the conditions present in the Information Age, and how they impact our understanding of leadership.
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Papers Detailing the Application and Practices
through an Ontology of Language
The following one-page papers introduce specific linguistic acts and practices. These papers are made available here to help learners grasp and apply the work by Anthony V. Zampella, which explores the ontology of language. Mr. Zampella’s work is dedicated to unlocking the hidden generative (creative) properties in language that can assist individuals and organizations in shifting how they perceive and interpret environments and their lives.
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For more information on this work, contact Anthony V. Zampella.
Generative Language:
The Language of Leadership
Get Past Fear and into
an Abundance of Requests
Getting Past “Stuck”
and into Action
Creating Breakdowns
to Inspire Action
The Power of Promises
The Promises of an Organization
The Core Elements of Leadership: Commitment, Courage, and Conversation
by Jeffrey D. Ford
This is the first of two articles by ontological thinker Jeffrey Ford to explore leadership.
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The Challenge of Leadership
by Jeffrey D. Ford and Laurie W. Ford
This second article by Jeffrey and Laurie Ford delves deeper into the ontological factors of leadership.
►Intermediate Reading
Organizational Change As Shifting Conversations
by Jeffrey D. Ford
This paper explores producing and managing change within conversationally constructed realities. Conversations are proposed as both the medium and product of reality construction, within which change is a process of shifting conversations in the network of conversations that constitute organizations.
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Resistance and the Background Conversations of Change
by Jeffrey D. Ford, Laurie W. Ford and Randall T. McNamara
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Conversations and the Authoring of Change
by Jeffrey D. Ford and Laurie W. Ford
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The Opening of the Western Mind
by Julio Olalla
There are many signs that a major shift in consciousness is already under way, pointing to what we might call the opening of the western mind. In this paper, Master Coach and ontological designer, Julio Olalla explores philosophy from thinkers such as Martin Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Willis Harman, and Ken Wilber, to reveal a new brand of thinking that is emerging.
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