A Future More Powerful than the Current Business Environment

by Ivan Rosenberg, Ph.D. (Frontier Associates, Inc.) and Barry Pogorel (Crossroads Transformational Consulting, Inc.)

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White Paper - Strategic Planning WORKS -- If You Give It A Chance

by Ivan Rosenberg, Ph.D. (Frontier Associates, Inc.) and Daniel Feiman (Build It Backwards)

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Keys to Successful Partnership Aerospace Projects
Adapted from a presentation at the Space 2008 Conference,
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, September 9, 2008

by Ivan Rosenberg, Ph.D. (Frontier Associates) and John Marriott (Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp.)

This paper reports on the lessons learned by project managers from numerous aerospace projects that involved true partnering (vs. arms-length subcontracting) between a NASA Center and a for-profit aerospace company, and suggests specific actions to do and not do that increase the chances for mission success. Many of the findings are applicable to any partnering situation.

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For an organization's members, the organization's vision is a source of excitement, passion and commitment. Yet for many, daily work is not connected to the organization's vision. This article shows how productivity, coordination, excitement, commitment, and passion can be brought to work by linking daily individual behavior to an organization's vision, mission, and values. Results are major performance improvements, the ability to overcome major obstacles and accomplish "impossible goals", effective teamwork, and a significant reduction in the level of management required.

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Creating Possibility in the Face of Uncertainty *
Transcript of a Workshop for Back On Track America™
January, 2002

conducted by Ivan Rosenberg, Ph.D.

This workshop addresses situations in which people are uncertain and fearful of the future, they think they are helpless to impact the situation, and they experience power in the face of such circumstances so that their actions are focused on their goals, rather than on reacting to current circumstances.

Our goal today is that in that face of that uncertainty you and others associated with your business are able to be more productive than otherwise. I am committed that you and the others in your business have power, effectiveness, satisfaction, and a quality of experience in the face of whatever uncertainty you happen to be facing.

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Forming and Leading Powerful Teams *

by Ivan Rosenberg, Ph.D.

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Leverage Points for Organizational Change
Adapted from an address at the Space 2000 Conference,
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, September 19, 2000

by Ivan Rosenberg, Ph.D.

We have all heard that the aerospace community is in need of radical change. We've heard how the industry is suffering from higher-than-expected costs, high-profile failures, long delivery times and declining stock prices.

And in the past several years we have seen many radical initiatives come and go, proposals involving total quality management, re-engineering, advanced engineering environments, and, of course, NASA's well-known "faster, better, cheaper."

Why haven't these initiatives produced better results? I suggest it's because in almost all of them, primary attention was paid to new tools. Secondarily some attention was paid to changing processes. Rarely was any attention paid to the people issues.

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