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Warren Bennis
Anonymous:
Oh so this guy has connections to E.S.T I get "it." So Warren X Bendass is not just an ordinary conslutant he is a wingnut.
Rock on Mr Bear
Ursus:
From an entry in Keith Ferrazzi's Blog "Never Eat Alone" (more business/networking newage sewage, in case you're wondering):
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Dinner "Alone"
From Mark Goulston
Keith was out of town recently and so I had to "eat alone" as a dinner guest of Warren Bennis, who was hosting his long time friend Werner Erhard, founder of est and the Landmark Forum, at The Hump restaurant in Santa Monica. It went so well that Werner invited me to join him and other friends for dinner the next night.
All in all, eight hours with Werner, his partner Gonneke, Steve Zaffron (CEO of Landmark's consulting arm), Dave Logan (a brilliant rhetoretician), and my colleage Jeffrey Schwartz (one of the pioneers in the neuroscience) was like having a prefrontal schmorgasbord. I was about to follow some of Keith's building intimacy questions, but Werner beat me to the punch. His approach was to have us sit at a circular table and never talk to the person next to us as it would exclude the others. He then had us introduce ourselves in any way we chose, but implied that the more memorable the introduction, the better for everyone.
I was able to give a copy of Never Eat Alone to Werner who enthusiastically latched onto it.
Posted by Leona Barad on March 26, 2007 |
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A most enlightening post. Interesting to find out that Werner Erhard still hangs out with Gonneke Spits Warren Bennis Steven Zaffron - but what was his purpose for visiting Santa Monica, California, and why have a dinner at the airport?
The food probably wasn't as good as when Gonneke Spits and Werner Erhard (going as Werner Spits ) dined at Ristorante Pappagallo in the Cayman Islands -
http://www.chaine.ky/Menu_Titanic.htm
Their meal simulating last meal on the Titanic
http://www.chaine.ky/Menu_OrientExpress.htm
"Christmas and Induction Dinner"
http://perso.orange.fr/eldon.braun/awareness/door2.html
More info on these individuals, from Pressman's book, OUTRAGEOUS BETRAYAL.
http://lgattruth.blogspot.com
Posted by: lgattruth | Mar 27, 2007 9:26:40 AM
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veryy
veryy
nice
thankss...
Posted by: evden eve nakliyat | Mar 30, 2007 2:39:43 PM
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Interesting re the circular table, Mark. In a marketing course in grad school, a group of us were seated at a circular table and the interaction between people was graphed. The LEAST interaction was between people sitting next to each other!
Posted by: Howard Tucker | Mar 31, 2007 6:17:31 PM
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Sounds like you were hardly eating alone. What was your memorable introduction?
Posted by: Paige Kearin | Apr 3, 2007 9:12:41 AM
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thanks for your informations.very good informations..i will read all the time this blog.again thanks...
Posted by: evden eve nakliyat | Apr 7, 2007 4:13:09 AM
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Precious work.
Best of blog
Posted by: oyun77 | Apr 7, 2007 12:48:01 PM
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Very nice blog, good work.
Posted by: minik leydi | Apr 7, 2007 12:49:53 PM
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Very nice blog, good work.
Posted by: minik leydi | Apr 7, 2007 12:53:40 PM
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Thank you all for the comments and enjoying the blog regarding a recent dinner with Warren Bennis and Werner Erhard. Paige Kearin (who has a great blog of her own at: http://remarkablelives.blogspot.com/) asked what my "memorable" introduction was. I introduced myself by describing a "breakthrough" moment with a highly suicidal patient where I literally went into her psychological hell and and walked out with her (see: http://markgoulston.com/articles/latime ... iles.shtml)
Apparently it was pretty memorable, because Werner invited me out to a second dinner the next night (as mentioned in my blog) and was followed by a very kind and complementary email from both he and Warren Bennis afterwards.
Posted by: Mark Goulston | Apr 7, 2007 9:15:37 PM
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Thank you, Mark, for that astonishing and, for me, synchronistic post. Before tonight, I had yet to hear of Never Eat Alone or TED. I was certainly aware of Werner, being a graduate of est and The Six Day Course (at which I met my wife-to-be back in 1984), and having only last month checked up on his whereabouts (after listening to an old cassette of him speaking on accomplishment). In fact, when I was listening to a sample of Keith speaking, the thought had occurred to me that his manner had a delightful touch of Werner in it. And then to read your post.... It's wonderful to have people like all of you in "the orchestra."
Ursus:
From: The Return of Werner Erhard: Guru II, Los Angeles Magazine, May, 1988, Vol 33; No 5; Sec 1; pg 106, Mark MacNamara, San Francisco, CA. See this post in another thread for the full article: http://fornits.com/wwf/viewtopic.php?t=23187&start=1
Another scholar who knows Erhard well is Warren Bennis, professor of business administration at USC. Bennis took the est training in 1979 in London: "It gave me a good sense of who I was at a critical period in my life. I had just ended my time as university president, and I was looking around for new directions."
Bennis, who during the early 1980s served as a consultant to Erhard, giving advice on organizational design and leadership techniques, felt that what the training provided in those years was a "restoration of the self": "I'm sort of a loner among my colleagues. The people I know have profited from it. I don't think it deserved the bad press it has gotten. Personally, I haven't met a person who has gone through it and not profited."
But Bennis adds that there were problems: "The bad part is the proselytizing, the phone calls you get, the language; there's something missing in the aesthetic of it. And another problem has been the dependence upon Werner himself. Which is not his problem. If you're in that kind of position, sometimes you get disciples as opposed to students."
"I have to say," adds Bennis, "that it's an incredible puzzle for me that he has acquired such a negative image among so many people. I detect a lot of hostility, and I don't understand it. A lot of my friends are Jewish, and I'm Jewish, and often they see est as a quick fix for making money from losers.
"But many of my colleagues who criticize Erhard have grown up in a deterministic environment. The world they know was created by Freud, Darwin and Marx -- all men who believed in limits. I think Erhard is talking from a different perspective, and sometimes that's threatening to people who are resigned to the death-on-the-installment plan."
Joseph W. Gauld:
Bennis-babes' got A-one character in my book!! He's a distinguished business man after my own heart!! See there's certain buzz words ya gotta use to get your point across. Words like character, integrity, higher standards, morals, leadership, ethics, courage, challenge, etc. etc. etc. Just get yourself a good thesaurus and you'll do alright. Jes pepper your speeches with these babies, lessee... maybe one or two per sentence. People don't really listen that good anyway, ya just want to get across that you're one of the good guys 'cause you use them words. Remember, a big lie is always easier to pull off than a little one, so shoot for the moon, Alice!! And.. people'll always discount you 'bout 20%, so you wanna make sure that 80% is still a doozer!
Philosophically,
Joseph W. Gauld, The Educator and Bamboozler par excellence
Ursus:
Incomplete but nonetheless useful timeline for Warren Bennis' career, taken from pp9-11 of a PowerPoint presentation Group Development: What Bion, Bennis, Shepard, Schutz, Drexler, and Sibbett Say About Us given at a business conference. Pre-conference Intensive--PRED103; 40th OD Network Annual Convention; October 1-3, 2004.
OD refers to "Organization Development," a school of thought which I believe arose out of the T-Groups encounter sessions (which Bennis was involved with in at least its early days). See HERE and HERE for some more info on T-Groups.
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Date | Event and Accomplishments
March 8, 1925 | Born in New York, NY
1943-1947 | Served in the military. At 19, he was the youngest U.S. lieutenant to serve in the European theater of World War II, receiving a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart.
1951 | Graduated from Antioch College (B.A.)
1952 | Received an Honors Certificate from London School of Economics and Political Science (Honors Certificate)
1953-1955| Instructor at MIT
1955 | Received his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1955-1956 | Assistant professor of social psychology at MIT
1956-1956 | Assistant professor of psychology at Boston University, Boston, MA
1956-1959 | Senior research associate at Human Relations Center
1958-1959 | Visiting lecturer at Harvard University
1959-1963 | Associate professor of industrial management at MIT
1956 | Published A Theory of Group Development with Herbert A. Shepard
1960 | Visiting professor at University of California
1961-1962 | University of Lasanne
1962 | Married Clurie Williams and later fathered Katherine, John Leslie, and Will Martin
1963-1967 | Professor of organizational and management psychology at MIT
1966 | University of Southern California
1967-1968 | Provost of faculty of social sciences and administration at State University of New York at Buffalo
1968-1970 | Vice-president for academic development at State University of New York at Buffalo
1969 | Member of White House task force on foreign policy
1969-1970 | Acting executive vice-president and provost of natural sciences at State University of New York at Buffalo
1971-1977 | University professor and acting president at the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
1977 Professor of research at University of Southern California, Los Angeles
1983 | Divorced Clurie Williams
1988 | Married Mary Jane O'Donnell
1991 | Divorced Mary Jane O'Donnell
1992 | Married Grace Gabe
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