Getting Our Act Together

Compression InstituteWe had a board meeting on February 18. Like everyone, we had to work to avoid being sucked into the mire of finance and legalities, and concentrate on how to promote our mission. We did make a little progress.

If you have not visited our reworked web page, please visit www.compression.org. Revisions will continue. Content will shift toward video. Some are up now, and more will come.

Everyone is invited to an overview webinar at 9:15 EST on April 3. It’s through the World Trade Group.

Plans to promote Action Learning Groups began to jell. We are working on materials to support those plans. We’re looking for pioneers in Chicago, Indianapolis, Louisville, Minneapolis, Portland, and Northern New Jersey. If you feel venturesome, contact Doc.

The Compression Institute’s challenge is to induce pioneer organizations to work and learn together to deal with what we term Compression, translating the limits of a finite world into local actions that they can take here and now. Bucky Fuller, believed to have coined “Spaceship Earth,” also described the present system as “competitive confusion.” We think Compression Thinking, while very different, will simplify how work organizations can step up performance to this level. Our biggest problems are human, not technical.

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