Foresight "Group Genius" Weekend
Leaping the Abyss:
Putting Group Genius to Work
Acknowledgments
Test Readers
Our secret weapon: test readers to whom we
could turn, knowing we would get merciless and insightful criticism, as
well as useful and creative suggestions for improvements. We wanted to write
a book that would be useful to our friends, and anyone working on challenging
projects. You made sure we did it:
Christopher Allen, Mindy Bokser, James CastroLang,
Stephanie Corchnoy, Allan Drexler, Cay Drexler, Marie-Louise Kagan, Judy
Merkle, Chip Morningstar, David J. Ross, Heidi Ross, E. Dean Tribble, Linda
Vetter.
DesignShop Specialists
You took us inside your world of Key Facilitators
and Knowledge Workers, of the Creative Process Cycle, and time traveling
into the future. You were our exemplars of creative and cooperative teamwork.
You shared with us the insights that you've gathered over several hundred
years of combined experience in bringing people to their maximums and solving
their problems.
It is said that you have to experience a DesignShop
event to truly understand it: you've got to get on the boat and take the
ride, not just hear about it. This is correct. But if we've succeeded in
giving people even a hint of what the experience is about, it's because
you helped us explain the unexplainable:
Kelvy Bird, Bill Blackburn, R.K. Bruce, Jr.,
Doug Cantrell, Bryan Coffman, Rob Evans, Jon Foley, Christopher Fuller,
Pat Gibson, Frances Gillard, Todd Johnston, Gunner Kaersvang, Patsy Kahoe,
Michael Kaufman, Scott Kjelgaard, Lisa Piazza, Chip Saltsman, Gail Taylor,
Matt Taylor, Robert Taylor, Amelia Thornton.
Experienced Sponsors and Participants
First, they had the insight and courage to take their companies through
DesignShop events and transformation. Then, they had the courage and heart
to share their stories with us. When we demanded to know if this process
really worked and where it failed, they unflinchingly gave us the inside
view of the journey including the good and the bad, the troubles and the
triumphs:
Bill Espinosa, Larry Ford, Lynn Galida, Ralph
Graham, Keith Kushman, Greg "Deacon" Lewis, Elsa Porter, John
Poparad II, Col. Bill Rutley, Lee Sage, Garry Singleton, Gary Strack, Jack
Yurish, Jerry Wind.
Special Thanks
To Bryan Coffman who designed and wrote the
exercises that follow each chapter and for the weblinks that he and Jay
Smethurst added to enrich the text, to Chip Saltsman for comments, quotes,
and feedback above and beyond the call of duty, to Jolynn Steffan for layout
and editing labors, to Judy Hill for proofing punctiliously, to Pat Gibson
for the massive transcription work intelligently and artistically done,
to Patsy Kahoe for coordinating MG Taylor's immense assistance, to Sheryl
Corchnoy for her assistance with our organization as authors, to Peter Durand
and Christopher Fuller for their artwork that captures the emotion and essence
of the DesignShop ride, and to Christopher for also contributing the cover
design of the book.
To Matt Taylor and Gail Taylor for letting
us rummage around through their life's work and harass them with endless
questions about what, how, why, where, and "what do you mean by that?"
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