Practice? Podcast

Dave's former student Rich Madara is looked to by his company CDW's salesforce to help them learn and perform at the velocity of digital transformation. He talks with "Doc" when recently taking on this broadly-framed role where little of the old sales theories and materials pertain. Rich is concurrently transforming his own Training Practice to meet this challenge.  

We resume our conversation about Social Enaction by exploring the infinite nature of consciousness bolstered by imagination. Recording this episode by a Maine lake, we could waft each other's attention to matters as close as the industriously fishing loon to the looming universe. The practice of conversation edifies and amazes. We (former) Mainers knew the next chance to boggle a Mind started with "Pull up a chair and talk awhile",  

Dave met Cecile Betit (https://www.linkedin.com/in/cecile-g-betit-69b32843/) at an inaugural Zoom meeting for Open Source Organization Development.  She spoke of Inner Development in a breakout session. Intrigued, Dave arranged this episode to learn about and from Cecile. She tells of her unique chance to watch an employee-owned company develop in just this way.  

Dave meets two social entrepreneurs who advise and convene a fascinating national experiment in elevating the conditions favoring good health for all. Wellville (https://wellville.net/).  Rick Brush (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rrbrush/) and Jeff Doemland (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffdoemland/) constantly learn from those collaborating in each Wellville and see that lessons learned in each of the five sites are shared by all.  

Dave finds his former Management student Jessica Maura (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jmmaura/) happily growing and changing as she strives to keep a national company's payroll system in synch with constant changes through the Pandemic to what may change tomorrow. They reflect on how Dave's course design anticipated this caliber of practice.   

In this conversation, Dave's former student Pam Potanka (https://www.linkedin.com/in/pamela-potanka-76616a57/) instantly credits her North America-wide Aftermarket Service Team with the results she could claim for herself. She realizes her gains in leadership practice with measures of each member's success and of their responsiveness collectively.    

Gage has taken over the family workbench and makes his practice restoring battered and silent antique clocks to full use back on new mantles.   Soon to begin his freshman year in college to study American History, his fully recovered clocks resume keeping the time of other people's lives.  For years to come, this practice will keep Gage ticking.  https://www.facebook.com/gage.robertson.35  

Placing investments that earn within the global stock market's rapid ebb and flow calls for a seasoned archer's precision. Rob' Larity's desire to be different in the crowded wealth management arena led to the creation of Cognitive Investments (https://www.cognitive.investments/), which is just now opening to individual investors. Dave loves meeting an earnest "rethinker"; so will you.     

This is the continued conversation where Dad tells Dave to take his thoughts about thinking itself out to the freeing range of speculation.  This demonstrates what each of us can do in our practices to make a 'normal' moment into a chance to consider our Universe(s).  If for any reason, it makes 'room' for more grounding ideas to grow.  In our new digital book On Practice, Peter Vaill writes: "We don’t know as much about the consciousness of practitioners and have tended instead to impose models on it that are basically normative, that is, how we think that consciousness should be".  This, we push out the boundaries.  

This is another 'Dave & Dad' talk probing the dynamics of mind and consciousness underlying our Practice behavior.  It went long, so it is offered in two parts.  This conversation is an example of how two people with different knowledge focus on one thing - socially enacted Practice - and see where it leads us.  Live conjecturing.