You are invited to learn about and co-create “BE the tipping point” (BEtp) – an IAJBS/GMI/GRLI/oikos-International initiative to transform all global business practices by transforming all global business education -- rapidly and inexpensively. The session invites you to build on contributions to the initiative made in June, 2025, at the IAJBS World Forum in Bogota, Colombia, and other conferences to improve and expand the initiative in many ways, and to join BEtp.
Karl Weick’s “sense-making” work (e.g., Weick, 1997) is used to conceptualize and communicate BEtp’s history; use of design thinking, Appreciative Inquiry, and Theory U; current status; and possible future directions.
Key events discussed include: “conferencing our way to a sustainable world” (EAM,1997) “Leading for sustainability” (2009 World Forum at XLRI); the MacArthur Foundation’s 100&Change competitions, conferences, workshops, and research by PRME/-HLA/Fordham/Club of Rome/MIT-Presencing-Institute/etc.
Key concepts include: “experiments never fail” (Dauten 1996), ”more than” (Putnam, …), radically transparent co-creation, rapid prototyping action research, Humanistic Leadership, the social construction of reality, ontological transformation, and others.
In walking its own talk, this proposed session is part of an evolving work-in-progress planned for seven January to July 2025 conferences… including the June IAJBS World Forum in Bogota, Colombia.
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Weick, K. E. 1997. Sense making an organizations: Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.