Upcoming book: Making Change Happen

See an excerpt from David Kantor's upcoming book Making Change Happen: the Art and Science of Intervention in the latest Mobius Strip: Magazine for Transformational Leadership Professionals! Page 21. http://lnkd.in/dX44YB8

Johns Hopkins Medical Philanthropy Institute

See how KI is helping development officials develop their models for medical #fundraising! Register now! 

From the website: "The JHMPI Summer Institute will introduce you to a different way of working, one which will enable you to effectively incorporate insights and new experiences into your practice of medical development. In this session, we will apply Dialogue and Structural Dynamics, two theories that can guide intentional change in settings involving communication and interaction, to the practice of medical development."

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/philanthropy_institute/summer_institute/

Reading the Room: Continuing Education Course

We are excited to announce that Reading the Room is now a CE course. Earn your credits by simply reading and taking an online test! 

The Reading the Room course aims to enrich psychologists, consultants, coaches, therapists, leaders, and all professionals’ understanding of communication within their teams through the use of structural dynamics theory. The course will offer a background in structural dynamics with in depth coverage of communication differences in low stakes versus high stakes situations. With a focus on leadership behavior in high-stakes situations, the practitioner will be able to intervene effectively in group dynamics and its outcomes. The textbook serves as a go-to resource for leading teams.

Reading the Room is available at Ce-credit.com for 18 Continuing Education credits. Visit: https://secure.ce-credit.com/aff/46504/?go=/courses/102017

You can receive 15 Continuing Education Credit for reading and for a limited time, receive a 25% discount off the price of the CE course at GenesisCE.com.  During registration, enter the Discount Code word “Leadership” at the Discount/Promotional Code button.  Visit: Genesisce.org

Jewish Icons

Interested in a unique look into cultural and intellectual trends that have shaped the last 50 years? Through a series of anecdotes, Jules Chametzky brings Jewish writers to life. 

The full list of authors and icons you can get to know on a personal level when reading Out of Brownsville: Encounters with Nobel Laureates and Other Jewish Writers by Jules Chametzky:

1) ALFRED KAZIN

2) NORMAN PODHORETZ

3) ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER

4) MORTY GUNTY

5) HOWARD SACKLER and FRIEND

6) GRACE PALEY

7) ISAAC ROSENFELD

8) SAUL BELLOW

9) JOHN BERRYMAN

10) WILLIAM PHILLIPS

11) HAROLD BRODKEY & ERICA JONG

12) IRVING HOWE

13) CYNTHIA OZICK

14) LESLIE FIEDLER

15) TILLIE OLSEN

16) ADRIENNE RICH, ANNE HALLEY, MARILYN HACKER

17) ALLEN GINSBERG

18) KADYA MOLODOWSKY

19) AMOS OZ, SHIRLEY KAUFMAN, ABBA KOVNER

20) JOSEPH BRODSKY

21) MAISHE MIRSKY

22) PAOLO MILANO

23) EDWARD DAHLBERG

24) PAUL GOODMAN

25) RUTH WHITMAN, TRANSLATIONS and TRANSFORMATIONS

26) HARVEY SWADOS

27) CLARA AND RICHARD WINSTON

28)   MELVIN JULES BUKIET, etc.

29)   JULIUS LESTER

30) NAT HENTOFF and OTHERS

31) HELEN and JOSE YGLESIAS

Purchase Online Here

Art Kleiner Interview published to Strategy+ Business

"Building the Skills of Insight

To eminent systems therapist David Kantor, learning to recognize the hidden patterns in conversation is the first step toward more effective executive leadership."

View full interview here:  http://www.strategy-business.com/article/00154?pg=all

Many thanks to Art Kleiner. 

Guest Post Published

Check it out on the thoughtLEADERS Blog, LLC.

Link here:   http://www.thoughtleadersllc.com/2012/10/how-to-do-a-better-job-of-reading-the-room/

Let me know what you think!

The Debate

In Chapter 15 of Reading the Room, a structural dynamics analysis of Barack Obama, I identified the President as a Bystander in Open System Meaning. The downside of this profile (see chapters 2-5) is a tendency to internally follow and process information while simultaneously gearing up for a response (a strong move and oppose would be appropriate). Romney's strategy, a blast of words misrepresenting even his own position, overwhelmed Obama's strategy of presenting facts. The result was that he seems slow, detached, and ineffectual. All a consequence of an otherwise effective behavioral repertoire based on the above, sited, profile.