Mentors

The people this came from.

Nothing here is ours alone. These are the people who taught it, by name, with what each one gave and where to read them for yourself.

The tradition as a whole, and the ideas rather than the people, is the lineage.

  1. Chauncey Bell

    Business designer and inventor

    Chauncey Bell

    He named coordination waste and spent decades measuring it inside enterprises. Fernando Flores’s long-time collaborator, and the man who taught us what the word conversation actually means.

    Read about Chauncey

Still to be written

Named here because the debt is real. Each gets a page when there is something true and specific to say, and not before.

  • Peter Yaholkovsky

    Chief Listening Officer, in residence

    Began in medicine. Has spent most of a career on one question: what actually happens between two people when one of them finally hears the other.

  • Fernando Flores

    The origin of the tradition

    Cybersyn, the Coordinator, and the claim that an organization is a network of commitments made in language.

  • Charles Spinosa

    Leadership as masterpiece creation

    Moral risk-taking, and leadership read through the humanities rather than through management.