Notes

[MikeOppliger]

9/18/19
Chasing “nuance” (Google this)
We select nuance because we want to see each others differences in our selection of words
We’re going after difference because that’s how we’re creating value
Create value in digital space


Heading towards 5 boxes with 3 words in each
Writing your own textbook
First Person Action Research (Google)
Start looking at words as ideas
Start looking at words as symbols

You're learning to abstract
You want to stay rooted in reality
Create organizations that allow innovation
Textual turn (google)
Creating reality through the words we select
Cultural stock
Use fishbowl to show people how you think, read, and write
We don’t want to talk about growth and success, we want to talk about bountifulness (Google)
Your experience is dependent on your social relations within group
No interpretations when writing your note
Circle 6 words that are symbols of the night
Select two words that have never been next to each other
Create sentence structure with these words
If you don’t know what to write, write about your feelings
Creating a pool of words
You’ve left these two words behind
Notes are always private

[MikeOppliger]

9/4/19
Textbook isn’t about , it’s about process
Designing innovative organizations, be able to put “design analyst on resume”
Design thinking is an inter process
Owning up to your text
Learning how to write a sentence
Movies, TED talks
Professor will be sending letters that we will work on
“Building our cultural capital” - Pierre Bourdieu
In this course we’re going at it one word at a time
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and makrs real advance in science” -Albert Einstein
Learn to engage with text
Facilitating processes for self-organization (both individually and collectively) is an important part of what you do in the course
Active listening and active reading means active learning
Forced Structuralist
When you write something that impacts the reader’s mind, they will never forget

[MikeOppliger]

9/11/19
Learning through osmosis
Google all names
Don’t post unnecessary facts that everyone can already see
Post under the subject vocabulary all the words that are in bold
Vocabulary is key
Creating value for your group everytime you post
Deconstruct letters (see the Reflection of your work)
- Should be able to understand
- Select sentence, phrase, word, etc and deconstruct it (don’t need to deconstruct entire letter)
A key thing of design thinking is a living text
- If it’s not living text, it is dead space
Immerse yourself in the text
- Thinking about it all the time
- Thinking one word at a time
- Go to the dictionary to look up words
- Get more words that relate to it
Your values are your selected words
Focus and you create value
Ethnographic notes
Whatever happens to you, write it down
Take note of details about what happened at meetings
Physical Details
What group members said
Who was late etc.
Select 6 symbols (words)
Pairing up words into 3 pairs (pick words that don’t relate to each other)
Go into dictionary for those 6 words and write them out
2 words at a time
Create a simple sentence
It’s a word game
3 sentences are a framework for you to interpret your social meeting
Start with sentence at the top, then under, write a description about social meeting
The precise meaning and significance will vary according to the frame of reference through which it is viewed.
Precise
Meaning
Significance
Vary
According
Frame
Reference
Viewed
Look up definitions of these words in the dictionary and create an original sentence

[MikeOppliger]

Looking at undergraduate research as undergraduate projects
Google URI Undergraduate Research
Try to attend as many URI Business conferences
Accept Virtual Registration
- Registration costs under $500

[MikeOppliger]

Final Paper Outline:
3 pages double spaced
Intro (2 -3 sentences, your setting up what the reader is going to read in the next three pages)

First Paragraph: Opening sentence is one we constructed (Abstraction)
2-3 sentences from the article (Facts, what happened, what the article is saying)

Repeat 4 more times (1 for each sentence we constructed)

Conclusion

[MikeOppliger]

10/30
We have to learn certain skills
Shift in skills
Different ways of thinking
Each way of thinking is known as a discourse

We want to create an innovative organization
Sanjiv believes Hong Kong is a very important happening
Always projecting the felt experience to that which is abstract
Learning and mechanistic ways do not go together
How do you design an innovative organization for people to thrive?
Using images and metaphors
Image has a word attached to it
Engage in a continuous construction and deconstruction of meaning
We deconstruct meaning every time we substitute a word
Encounters with everyday reality in your felt experience
Offering a highly personalized method for understanding organizations, using the metaphor of reading and writing organizational life as its dominant frame
Textual Analysis

[MikeOppliger]

You want to be simple, you really have to work hard at it
Reflexive Leadership
Metaphor 10 step example: We will do 3 more, Write out all the sentences you’ve constructed (each group member’s and final joint sentence), give hard copy
‘Deep Thinking’
‘Deep Learning’
‘Reflexive Leadership’
Give Personal lived example
The feeling of loneliness goes away when you surround yourself with words
Stay close to text
Refrasing, changing things, coming up with different perspectives all the time, and you do it by using the dictionary
Using it as a catalyst

[MikeOppliger]

What is your creative process?
Visualizing
Every perception gives rise to a world that mirrors it
Girl thinks she is a moth
Somebody has to show how to do it
Working with the body trying to restore mechanics
Think about whats around you and what can it can be combined with
Feeding off the energy of people around you
Being spontaneous
Determine Goals
Seeing what works and trial and error, something’s will work, something’s won’t
Look at what you have to work with, then look at the possibilities regarding what can be made
Work with what you’ve got, make what you need out of what you have
Become completely present, be here completely, create from a place of purity
“Knowledge Workers” Google