Brownfield & Lent
Creating conditions for excellence.

Articles

Three articles by Rick and Sharon provide more in-depth discussions of some of our distinctive projects.  Click on the link to access the article (PDF).

Sumantra Ghoshal, Breck Arnzen, Sharon Brownfield. A Learning Alliance between Business and Business Schools: Executive Education as a Platform for Partnership. California Mangement Review, 35 (1), Fall 1992.

Creating an innovative learning process for management development on a global basis for this computer manufacvturer.
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Richard Lent, Marie McCormick and Donna Skubis Pearce. Combining Future Search and Open Space to Address Special Situations. The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 41 (1), March 2005.
Combining and applying two methods for large group to help different religious communities redefine their futures.
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Richard Lent, Jim Van Patten, Tom Phair. Creating a World Class Manufacturer in Record Time. Handbook of Large Group Methods, Barbara Benedict Bunker & Billie T. Alban (eds.).  San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 2006, pp. 112-125.

Engaging the whole system in turning around the performance of this chemical manufacturing plant.
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Some of our other articles and presentations include:

Sharon:

Building Support for Systemic Change. Presented at the International Society for Performance and Improvements, Dallas, 2006.

Quantum Measures: Indicators for Learning Organizations. Presented at Learning Company Conference, Andover, MA, 1994

Rick:

“Exploring the paradigm of instructional design: Implications in business settings,” (with J. Van Patten). In C.R. Dills and A.J. Romiszowski (eds.), Instructional Development Paradigms, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Educational Technology, 1997.

Future Search: Using the Wisdom of the Whole System. Presented at the Pegasus/Systems Thinking Conference (with Nancy Aronson), Boston, 2006.

Sharon and Rick:

Recreating Training Functions as Learning Organizations. Presented at Learning Company Conference, University of Warwick, UK, 1997.