Taking and Making Notes

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Notes: 9/11/2019

Learning through OSMOSIS
- Process of gradual assimilation of ideas or knowledge
Need to Google names
- Select a sentence on the person, why did you select the sentence? Create another from knowledge and thoughts
Vocabulary
- Look up meanings of words, post under sub. category
- Create another sentence with meaning in a way that benefits others
Deconstruct letters
- Make a reflection
- Use a sentence or phrase that stands out, what thoughts do they create?
Key thing of design thinking is that you are creating a "living text"
- If it isn't a living text then it is dead space
Have to immerse yourself in text
- Thinking about the word all the time
** Proceed with one word at a time, making a selection out of those words found from dictionary meaning that will send you off on your own to create a letter

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Social Meeting Exercise:
One meeting with groups, class will be cancelled one day to help complete
Open ended meeting ... No agenda or time limit
Make notes on the "pre-individual"
- What were you like before class or meeting/ how you are now
** Feelings, thoughts, ethnographic notes
After meeting ...
- Write our details of meeting, circle 6 words from notes
** Words = symbol
- Pairing the 6 words into 3 pairs ... Can't be associated with each other
** Define, create sentence for each pairing ... Framework to interpret social meeting
Look up DESCRIPTION and INCIDENT
We get closer to each other when we share our differences

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Imaginization - The Art of Creative Management
Google Gareth Morgan
"The precise meaning and significance will vary according to the frame of reference through which it is viewed."
Look up 8 words in dictionary, come up with one sentence ... Don't need to use all the words and meanings to create the one sentence

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Notes 9/18:
Google the terms:
Nuance Abstract Bountiful
We want to determine our differences
Why?
Our differences want to determine our selection → Creates value

Coming up with a design that is a design of words
Five boxes with three words in each box (15 words in all)
Which 15 are you going to select, how will you put them into the design (boxes)
How are you going to get there?
Writing your own textbook
Learning “First Person Action Research”
Google it
Work itself is very specific and sequential

Have to start looking at words as ideas and as symbols

Learning to create a design as a group of 3
Something that presents us

Use design as a template to address problems and solutions for Final
3 pages, do it jointly
Be able to trace the beginning from work

Learning to abstract

Design of organization has to do with identity of organization

Only want to post what is of value
Can only post or add to value if you know what has been posted
Can’t be the same thing, tweak it so it is different

Textual Turn
A revolution

Cultural Value/Stock
Measurable
What the Fishbowl is helping to create or add to

Bountiful
Want to talk about it
Experience it in the digital environment

Experience is dependent on social relations among group members

Social Meeting Exercise:
Meet socially - in evening ideally, but could use class time
Keep it open ended
Conversation shouldn’t be about this class
Writing text before meeting (feelings)
After meeting: write from memory the experience
Just observation not interpretation
Circle six words (symbols)
Represent what happened
Put them in dichotomies
Put into pairs, two words that don’t go together at all
Three pairs
Make a sentence, structure to the relation of these two words
Take definitions and forge pathways to create a sentence
Don’t worry about two original words, keep it simple
Universal and particular → must fit togther
Particular is details from social meeting (short paragraph)
3 Paragraphs
One sentence for each paragraph
Each starts with a dichotomy
Six symbols
Can post notes too
Notes are always private
Set up meeting and try to post to Fishbowl at same time


Metaphor
Start with machine metaphor
Take word machine and image comes to mind
Put down words which associate with image (3)
Technology
Mechanics
Systems
These words and image create a mental space
Determines the way we behave with each other

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Strictly Ballroom Notes:
Beginning
Window panes and straight lines
Silhouettes
Under framework of structure
Waltzing
Everything is perfect, difficult to judge
Always sitting at a height to show structure
Racial integration
Scott became boxed in - or blocked
Every metaphor has its own category
Forced into own crowd pleasing steps
Caused negative emotions from mother, President, and others at the Championship
Behavioral and Emotional effect
Experts come in and state wrongdoings
Not what the Fishbowl is like
Co-authorship
Father son difficult relationship
Audience comes to forefront now thanks to internet
Start to do machine steps, you’ll lose your audience
Only way out is through creating a living text
Prehistory has to unfold or unravel
Creating a history

Everybody likes Scott but no one wants to work with him
Developing creatively
Always done one word at a time
One step at a time in this case
What gets to him is his sexism
Talking down to the woman
Crying due to frustration
Doesn’t listen to her … Realizing how to admit that she is the creative person
Learn to listen and wait
Mother and father two opposites
Fighting
He has the creativity
Fran forced to stay home

Want Tina Sparkles as his partner
Vision statement
Hero/ambassadors set the right example
Want to be the best
Always have to destroy to create something
Can’t exist without the support of your peers
Admits he didn’t know anything about that
Fran said he should dance with Tina
He’s been working on it since he was 6, choosing Tina over Fran
Fran stays supportive while hiding what her true feelings are
She can’t dance like Tina because she’ll break structure
Fran beautiful in her difference
Always being watched
Especially when you break structure
Emotional struggles
Shows another culture/image through dancing
Grandmother asked the right question
Getting to the answer
Rhythm not in the steps but something he should listen to
Picks it up
Cross over - creates something new
Creative kind of joy

Scott has a creative urge
Always seeking clarity
Kisses Fran and then says he needs to go meet Wayne
Father was greatest ballroom dancer ever seen
Threw it all away, became a selfish dancer and did his own thing
Vowed he’d never dance again
Scott is his reason to live
Wants to have him win the trophy he could never win
Putting difficult burden on him
Looking for evidence
Betrayal of ideas
Back again with Liz
Fran dancing with Beginners again

Conversation with Fran
She’s mad
Gutless wonder
Tells him its been hard for her, not just him... Getting him to dance with her in the first place

Father and son
Finally gets Scott to listen to him
Tells him the past... Never danced at Pan Pacific
Barry was the one who convinced the mother to dance with Les instead
Lost anyway
Couldn’t dance his own steps
Set it up for Tina and Ken to win
Terrible for Liz

Spot decision
Chooses Fran and leaves Liz
Wayne tells Les what he heard
Barry lied to everyone
Wayne cuts microphone
Everyone working to keep Barry from talking
Letting Scott and Fran dance
All of it has to do with metaphors, mental states, structures, etc
Scott and Fran suspended
Don’t leave floor
Dad clapping dramatically
Supporting them, providing a beat
Listen to the rhythm
Mother comes around, and Liz

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Notes 10/2

Three Buzz Words: Impact Engagement Innovativeness

Impact of postings
Experience of engagement with each other
New methods of doing things

Changing the way you think
How do you think? When and where did you change your thinking process?
→ Provide evidence --> Awareness to how you did it

Substituting the word to make it very simple and clear for yourself

Going into nuances of things in the shaded area to come up with new innovative ideas
Enhancing understanding through changing words
→ “Deep Learning” - put in resume under techniques

The learning takes place upon reflection
Go home - occurs afterwards
Has a realization

Continually creating and recreating how you understand things

Critical thinking:
Reading something and realizing there are other interpretations to it and gaining a deeper understanding about it

How do you design an organization that is continually innovative?
Designing group interaction in a way that the group is continually innovative
Group interaction is instrumental communication
Communication which adds value
Go through words with contemplation

Strictly Ballroom:
→ Strict steps
How do you change your steps?
→ Listen to the rhythm
Market is asking for what Scott and Fran did together
Journey of understanding and realizing and overcoming
Created something entirely new that is unique to them
New skills that create unique outcomes - Need people who are confident in doing that
Worth the risk - Won’t be bored

Design thinking has to do with being a words craftsmen
→ playing word games and creating/constructing meaning

Look up REALIZE and DEEP LEARNING

Google Searches:
Pull up a lot of information
→ don’t analyze or reproduce it
Scroll through it in a superficial way - look for ONE sentence minimum that helps you to understand what you’re doing in Fishbowl in regards to structures
Know authors name (important) and their technique
Judith Butler
Sentence must be something you are comfortable with
Deconstruct to make it simple and to help you feel comfortable with it
Mary Jo Hatch

Letters:
Reading and absorbing
Do what you like - but whatever you do “where is the learning?”
→ same with vocabulary: are you thinking about the word and deconstructing it through the tool box (Dictionary)?

Fishbowl:
Can’t enter with mindset of grading - slow the mind down
The slower you move the farther you go
Enter as a daily practice
Keep it simple

Class Notes:
Mind has to go into different places
→ Have to watch your mind - selecting your words
Create knowledge from abstracting
Which symbols juxtapose in order to create meaning?
Reading each other’s text

Note taking is very critical
→ at the heart of action learning

Final has to have value
Producing knowledge as a social practice

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BUS 443 - Notes 10/9

Pull out a sentence for methodologies that add to the value of group

Knowledge workers - creating knowledge together
Sharing our thought processes
→ Selections, sorting out the Fishbowl to reveal how your mind works
Taking ownership of your text
→ Created a structure and share feelings
This is a vignette or episode that we are creating

Improving your English by doing your vocabulary
Getting ideas from other words - always looking them up
Always in motion and a state of becoming

Following the scent in these tens steps and letting it lead you

METAPHOR, BRIDGE, BETWEEN, CONCRETE, ABSTRACT, MIND, LINKING, KNOWN. SENSES, WORKING, DESCRIBE

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Fishbowl: 10 + 1 Steps

1. Structure
- Opening Structure (sentence)
- Entering the unknown - always enter on a structure

2. Gathering words and creating a word pool
- Drawing the boundary of your context from collecting these words from a dictionary
- Going into dictionary and writing out more substitute words
--> Trying to understand “what does this mean” and experience it at the same time = Experiential learning
- Can extend boundary and take words further

3. Re-structure
- Creating a new sentence from the word pool
--> Can move on from the original sentence, should always be simple
** Captures somewhat the meaning of the first structure
** Entering the unknown
--> Writing out 3-4 sentences and then weeding it out
- Abstract sentence - no first person, talking only about words and how they relate to each other

4. Felt Experience
- Bringing the “I” into the picture
- Personal experience, a description, describing an event or an incident
--> Explaining something, talking about yourself and keeping it really short
--> Has to fit abstraction - creating knowledge

5. Working together
- On your own in steps 1-4
- If you can’t find group members at this step then you can’t do anything
- Giving each other perceptual categories
--> REDUCTIONIST TECHNIQUE
--> Looking at the whole thing and reduce it to one word - not sharing word until every group member has one
** Becomes the reference point you lead off with - answers how does your text make you feel?
** Word is arbitrary and adds to their value
** You choose a word and each group member gives a word back on how they think the sentence made you sound/feel
--> Do the same to other group members to form 9 words total
- Perceptual Categories
- Creating knowledge is tentative

6. From 9 words - Create a dichotomy
- With group members - post and wait, other two have to agree on it
- Two words aren’t linked to each other
- Show suggested dichotomies as well

7. Create a word pool from dichotomy
- Push boundaries of mind - widen the context by taking words further and then create a structure

8. Structure
- Has nothing to do with opening structure
- Done jointly - with group members
- Come up with own sentence, show others, then negotiate (pick/choose) and create a final sentence
--> Sentence must be simple, not complex that has to do with felt experience

9. Felt Experience again
- Individual

10. Perceptual Categories one more time
- Create 9 words again

11. Final Paragraph
- Provides insight and realization

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BUS 443 Notes: 10/23

Money is made if skills are conceptual
Developing the skills of conceptualizing

Learning to abstract → doing it in steps
Felt experience → give an example and empower your text
Take the words and simplify
Being asked to make selections
Have to learn to empower your text
Felt experience is a short paragraph → the shorter the better, but no limit as long as it has one example

Reification → Google term
When we perceive the world and start changing reality, keep structures flexible

Pull out phrase from letters and take words further to create a short felt experience
The vocabulary is our resources
What is it invoking in you
Take ownership of your text

Learning to write your own textbook
Learning to do social constructivism
Learning to do participant observation
Learning to do symbolic interaction
Learning to do reflexivity → social and
Learning to do action research
Learning to do auto-recognogrophy

Capture fleeting images in your mind
→ For knowing and knowledge creation
Start with the feeling

Looking at words from movies as symbols that you will dissect later on

Metaphor/Hard copy due next week

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Notes: The Guys movie

Music in beginning goes with imagery and metaphor of sad beginning
Singing about death and going away, relates to 9/11 encounter

Felt Experiences:
New york, my beautiful, gleaming, wounded city
Came to New York and never went back to Oklahoma
Brave, foolish, 25 year old girl
I’d cut my deal with God
When was the last time anyone said they needed a writer

Difficult collaboration

Lost eight men = Eight eulogies
350 men lost = 350 services
Happened in one day, one hour
Faced with an enormous problem

Patrick O’Neill → that’s a hard one, that’s his best friend
Wants to do his on his birthday

We’ll take it a step at a time
One word at a time

Bill was just an ordinary guy
A schmo, if he walked into a room no one would even know
He was the senior guy and junior men looked to him
“My men” he called them
He was proud of being Irish
Touching each other’s lives
Bill was like the firehouse food critic
Bill was a quiet hero
He was absolutely dependable

Social construction of reality
Symbolic reaction between these two
Self reflexivity
Imagination, text, and metaphors
Impact is extraordinary when you work the text

I hope you can find comfort

Jimmy → the new guy
Show me more
Twenty two years old
I can’t even remember his face
Welcome to the company this is the best job in the world
Have to take the word further to construct meaning
They were chomping at the bit
This was it, September 11th was his first big fire

Patrick
I’m in denial about him
Motto: follow me --> And they did
A real straight arrow
Was working the morning shift
Took tuesday morning shift for no reason
Emergency broom

Realization
Everybody’s afraid, they just never admit it
Bond forming through images and memory

Disclosures
He dances

Constantly learning through words

Visits fire department and asked about the kitchen
The neighborhood is with you

Lost 14 men
Six from engine and 8 from ladder
Both drivers survived

Words → they’re your tools

Barney
Everybody loved Barney
Barney and Dave → always having these escapades
Had this banter that could just keep you rolling
Loved fatigued metal
Not enough to be the boss
You have to lead and connect with each other at the human level

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BUS 443 Notes: 10/30

Addicted to distraction - can’t focus on one thing
Human beings are being altered

Fishbowl - you can create anything you want
If you’re born in a rigid structure mindset you’re going to be scared
You’re designing text, designing an organization which we are looking at as reading and writing
What are we reading? What are we writing?
Will determine our organization

Have to abandon your skills
Stay close to words
Focused on the word and forever taking it further
Curious

Different ways of thinking
Each way of thinking is known as a discourse
Thinking and doing - Theory and practice

Designing an innovative organization among the three of us
Look at 10 steps and create an innovative organization
See yourself being creative
Got our own narratives, learning expression itself
Quality happens when you match the abstract image with your felt experience
Always projecting felt experience to that which is abstract

Strictly Ballroom
Metaphor of the machine
Learning and a mechanistic way of thinking doesn’t go together
Can’t run a business or thinking organization as a machine
Doesn’t allow for innovation
About the steps - have to get them right
About Fran - her background, has something going on there
Journey of Scott
Drive to be innovated, but isn’t allowed because of the machine
How do you design an innovative organization? One that lets Fran and Scott thrive
Other metaphors:
The organization has brains
Organizations as psychic prisons
Strict means it’s a machine

The Guys
Looking at the power of words and images, the enormity of the problem

We are designers of words. As a designer, you’re becoming your own theorist. You’re not copying from a textbook, but instead making your own. You’re using images and (words) metaphors to engage in a continuous construction and deconstruction of meaning in your encounters with everyday reality. You encounter the everyday reality in your felt experience.

Particular to you, you’re offering a highly personalized method for understanding organizations A personalized method for organization using the metaphor of reading and writing, organizational life as it dominant frame.

Fishbowl process is creating an organizational life through reading and writing.

Have to stay in touch with the words of the vocabulary.

Textual analysis and discourse analysis

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BUS 443 Notes: 11/6

Constructing theory - generalized and applies to everyone, universal
The particular is about your individual experience
—> Internal: about the self, conversation you have in your head
Mind and matter, abstract and real

Take the words further - look them up in the dictionary and proceed towards simplicity
The simpler you make your abstract statement the stronger it will be
To become simple is a hard job - a paradox

Leadership doesn’t come easily
Reflexive Leadership - Google term
—> engaging in exercises of influencing followers about meanings and understandings, whilst thoughtfully reviewing one's own thoughts and actions (and those of others involved in the situation)

Next Stage:
Write out all the sentences and dichotomies constructed
Give hard copy in class
Four sentences in exercise, Sixteen structures total after all assignments are finished
Might throw in a fifth
Circle 15 words from list of sentences/dichotomies
Put 15 words into 5 boxes, 3rd word will be outside of box (title)
Create 5 structures, 5 sentences
Sentence: Knowledge as objective or literal truth places too much emphasis on the object of knowledge and not enough on the paradigms, perspective, assumptions, language games, and frames of reference of the observer.
—> Where’s the observer coming from?
*Due next week*
Shortcoming is always in the felt experience
—> Go deeper, ends up being all theory
Have to empower abstract statement
—> Ask the question: How so?
Return to go deeper, to go deeper you have to return
Throwing out the theory, but keeping it in the sense to answer the question How so? For particular phrase underlined
Google “deep thinking”
—> to think beyond beliefs, preconceived ideas and prevailing opinions
Dichotomies will determine the trajectory of your thought process

Throw in felt experience when deconstructing letters

In the Market:
Everyone wants creativity among employees
—> Have a handle on how you are creative, how to create something new
Showing creativity with regard to words and images
Designing structures
Reader is applying it to their own life
Keeps you connected with humanity
We all have a creative process

Film:
Identify creative process - post to group how you think creatively
Take phrases from film to show creative thinking
Using film as a catalyst

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Wooly Fair Notes

Creative community in Providence
Do a Fishbowl in Providence
Interviews, demonstrations
- 1 minute interviews of what people’s creative process is, self reflexivity
- Individual is speaking to themselves and revealing what their process is = a reflection

M Rogers: Creative process started with a desire of the universe
To be lunar yet organic
Imagined self in various places, being there for her and gathered them
Visualized
On right path
Reading everyday to understand perceptions and building your world - what are her thoughts?
Becoming a moon moth

2nd person: The best and the worst
inspired to be bigger things

3rd person: Working with the body
Creative process is mental - trying to problem solve
Can sometimes be restrictive

4th person: Think about what’s around him, what can it be combined into
Give idea to someone

5th person: Material will develop its own use - have to listen to it as an item/object to see how it fits into idea
Rearrange matter into new formats

6th person - Jennifer: Painter, artist
Comes from artists around her - feeds off of their energy and inspirations
Using political themes, voice, own thoughts

7th person - Rob: Spontaneous is more creative
—> his best work

Libby : Talks with people - money and love
Determine goals - a lot of listening and questions, need to push back
Discover values and change numbers to realize that

9th person: About seeing what works
Trial and error to reestablish

10th person: Revolves around resources - what do you have to work with, what are the possibilities from them?
Work with what you’ve got

11th person - child: Drawing what you think of

Nina: Become completely present to abilities, be in the now
Meditative mind leads to positive creation

13th person: Photography
Work with the public

14th person: Entering into place of darkness and mystery to become creative
Uses physical experience to understand creativity
Visualizes

15th person: Collaborative and off the cuff
Respond to the environment and people around her without giving it an original thought

16th person: Visualize
Inspired by events/moments

17th person: Hands on creativity

18th person - Carly: Writing a book

19th person : Driven to be creative
Comes to him - vision
Study it, look at from different angles

Andrea: Finds inspiration and makes stuff out of it collaboratively
methodical/precise - based on necessity and long term goals

Derek: Doesn’t know - just does it
Inspired by environment

Ethan : Think about idea and what to do with it
Make movies - think about stories and how to use different tools

Mia : Draw what you want to see and what others want to see

24th person: Exponential growth - what allows you to function on a daily basis
Not a direct process

25th person: Hard work
Know and understand

Carl: Used to pile it all together and draw something out of it
Now time is of the essence, works quickly to get things done
Be in the moment and aware of surroundings

Bruce: Unknown process - lets it happen on its own
Experience it

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BUS 443 Notes: 11/20/19

Respect lies in text

Understanding of how knowledge and learning is created throughout the US

List of all sentences constructed in 10+1 Steps due on the 4th
One separately and one jointly (4 total for all structures)
Our 3 restructures and one joint structure from
Minimum of 16
Dichotomies
Min of 4
A couple of felt experiences (optional)
Out of sentences and dichotomies, circle 15 words individually
Put words into 5 boxes
2 in a box and one outside
5 boxes, two in each and one outside each (on top)
Create a sentence with each of the three words that is placed underneath each box (5 sentences)
Do one individually and one jointly for the boxes

Felt experience = deep thinking

Final Exam
Post 3 pages on fishbowl
5 paragraphs
5 sentences in each of the 5 paragraphs will be intro to each (sentences we created)
2 paragraphs on each page
7 total

Show how mind was working
→ not the final product but the process