CHANGE IS VERY HARD
To change is to change one's habits.
The cliche is very true: habits are a second nature.
Especially when we are asked to change them, especially from our perspective.
To aks us to change our habits is very much like asking us to change our whole personality, to destroy ourselves as we know ourselves.
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PERSPECTIVES FOR CHANGE
In view of the difficulties to change, we are naturally asking ourselves: "Why Change?"
To be motivated to change by the lure of financial independence or riches may be done for the short time by promoters of get-rich-quick plans.
But this motivation does not last. The lure of riches is not enough to make most of us change.
An employer is not interested in those short-term motivations: employers who seek change in their employees seek definite and hopefully lasting changes.
In this respect, it is important to consider the 3 perpectives from which persons agree to change:
Perspective#1: We are the creatures of an all loving God who made us in His image. We are called to be perfect as He is perfect. He will help us improve ourselves.
This is the perspective of faith, or the believer's perspective.
Perspective#2: There is no Outside Power, human beings are gods because there is nothing better than human beings on the face of the earth. Human civilization has greatly progressed over the centuries. We are perfectible one by one.
This is the materialistics, or even "scientific" perspective.
Perspective#3: There is no gods whatsoever. But human beings are improvable and to set up to take the course of self-improvement is the only way to define our existence. This is the only game in town. This is the existentialist perspective.
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MASTERING DIFFICULT CHANGE
We have had for decades the proof of very effective changes in the most difficult behaviors: the changes that Alcoholics Anonymous graduates have obtained even out of very weak characters and feeble bodies. The only perspective Alcoholic Anonymous has found that works is the believer's perspective (perspective #1 above).
There is no need to further doctrinal depth; this believer's perspective is already the psychological clincher for effective changes.(see Alcoholics Anonymous).
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CONTRIBUTION OF LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY
This instruction program is designed with some of the gems of human wisdom accumulated over 3,000 years in the great masterpieces of literature, theology and philosophy which bring light to different aspects of the human condition relevant to management..
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CONTRIBUTION OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
This instruction program has been reinforced by some of the precious insights, hard techniques and ingenious approaches to problem solving offered by the Management Sciences and Operations Research.
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CONTRIBUTION OF HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT
This instruction program has been formulated with the familiar discourse and expressed with the sense of practicality and immediacy proferred by the modern disciplines of Human Resources Development, and the scientific rigor of the social sciences ...
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PUBLIC EVENTS
Public sessions of the Instruction will be given starting Fall 1996. They will be of one day duration and will be conducted in Washington, DC. Keep watching this place for further information.
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IN HOUSE PRESENTATIONS
This program of instruction is available for presentation on corporate premisses. They are also of one-day duration. Please contact us for all arrangements to be made at your best convenience..
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CONSULTING
Follow-up consulting and coaching is available. Please contact us for arrangements to be made at your best convenience.
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OVER-ALL BENEFITS OF THE PROGRAM
The advantages of the program are:
- An enriched content with which attendees can relate to with their total cultural and affective
background...
- The removal from attendees' attitude of known resistances to unfamiliar and foreign value-based doctrines or theories...
- The tempting invitation to the attendees' rationality and esthetics to adopt an unforgettable and powerful, yet attendee-customizable, paradigm encompassing in a holistic whole the most important managerial concepts and issues including:
- Any subsequent training that client will participate in -- on any management concept or issue -- will gain maximized effectiveness as it will fit the logical grid of this program and will triger a profitable cross-polenization to the other issues.
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Dr. JEAN-FRANCOIS ORSINI
Dr. Orsini is a graduate of one of the top Business Schools in France, E.S.C.P., with a specialty in accounting. He has also earned an MBA (with a major in investment finance) from the Wharton School and a Ph.D. also from Wharton (with a specialty in strategic planning and the scientific approach to decision-making in management from the Social Systems Sciences dept., a Wharton doctoral department founded by Dr. Russell Ackoff, principal consultant to Anhaueser Bush for 40 years and co-founder of the Operations Research Society of America).
Dr. Orsini has been successively a technology transfer consultant, an investment advisor, a management consultant to organizations ranging from the World Bank to an emerging high-tech corporation. He was the founder and has been the President of the Saint Antoninus Institute for Catholic Education in Businessover the last 9 years.
He is also the president of the Greater Washington area chapter of the Society of Catholic Social Scientists. Sir Jean-Francois Orsini is a Knight in the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem, one of the two oldest orders and dignities conferred by the Catholic Church. Dr. Orsini is listed in the "Who's Who in the East."
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Motivation