Funger Hall 320, 2201 G Street NW, from noon to 2 p.m. Tuesday, April 21

will be William E. Smith PHD Director of ODII www.odii.com

The presentation covers a new theory of organization that has emerged from more than three decades of action research. The applications that contributed to the action part covered the whole gamut of organization levels from individuals trying to achieve high performance within their individual jobs, all the way through teams and organizations to multiple organization involved in the design of large scale World Bank Projects, through the design of whole sectors of the economy, whole countries and ultimately to the design of  the Global Development system itself.  

The story behind the development of this theory and practice, called A,I C for Appreciation, Influence and Control, the names of the three power relationships that form the base of the emerging organizing fractal, is recounted in the book “The Creative Power: Transforming Ourselves, Our organizations and Our World” William E. Smith.

This presentation will focus on understanding the five-dimensional, holonomic organizing fractal of AIC relationships that has emerged. It will show its origins in the contributions made by Science, Philosophy and Theology. It will also show how complexity theory is organization in the fourth dimension and how the addition of a fifth dimension reveals the simplicity behind Complexity.