[Dialogue] Any colleagues connected with Rensselear PolytechnicInstitute?

[Janice Ulangca]

Re subject title for this discussion - Does anyone want to know a colleague at RPI in Troy NY?  Ken Rose is a retired professor there, still stays in close touch with RPI, may still be advising grad students.  Contact him at icatroy at verizon.net      Janice Ulangca
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  From: R Williams 
  To: Colleague Dialogue ; James Wiegel 
  Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2011 9:43 AM
  Subject: Re: [Dialogue] Any colleagues connected with Rensselear PolytechnicInstitute?


  Jim,

  Isn't the 10% rule is what some have referred to as critical mass--if you can change 10%, the momentum will carry through to change the whole thing?  On the other hand some folks like Peter Senge and Otto Scharmer are suggesting that the issue is not critical "mass" but critical "connection."  Meg Wheatley pushes in her latest book addresses this from the point of taking things to scale.  She then distinguishes between "scaling out" (i.e. replication where everyone does everything out of the same model) and "scaling up" (maintaining the capacity for self-organization but making connections and building synergy).  I believe she would equate "critical connections" with "scaling up."  The strategic intent seems to be the same for both.

  Randy


  From: James Wiegel <jfwiegel at yahoo.com>
  To: James Wiegel <jfwiegel at yahoo.com>; Colleague Dialogue <dialogue at wedgeblade.net>
  Sent: Tuesday, August 9, 2011 7:48 AM
  Subject: [Dialogue] Any colleagues connected with Rensselear Polytechnic Institute?

  All it takes to change
  Globe and Mail 8/9/2011

  "To change the beliefs of an entire community," says Discovery News, "only 10 per cent of the population needs to become convinced of a new or different opinion, suggests a new study done at the social cognitive networks academic research center at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute.  At that tipping point, the idea can spread through social networks and alter behaviors on a large scale."


  Jim Wiegel
  Jfwiegel at yahoo.com

  When physicians were given a gift a bag of candy they were better at integrating case information and less likely to become fixated on their initial ideas and coming to premature closure in their diagnosis.  --  Some study I read about somewhere


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