Leonardo's Face

Siegfried Woldhek explains very clearly his theory about Leonardo Da Vinci's Face. Good Video.





If you want to know more about the work of Mr. Woldhek, here is his Blog click here

La Peruanización de Chile - Peruvianization of Chile

The Truth Behind the Pisco - La Verdad sobre el Pisco. En este video se ve claro de dónde realmente es el Pisco. [Videos in Spanish]

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Segunda Parte

Should humans be a part of the future. The Humans & Machines or Only Machines

Wired Magazine published an article, "Why the Future Does Not Need Us" written by Bill Joy, the co-founder of Sun Microsystems and who supported the creation of the JAVA language and basically developed the BSD Unix flavor. Well I think that the British Professor Kevin Warwick, the "Cyborg" as it seems he would like to be known, has the answer for Joy's question, watch his video.

Wake up America!

The song of the Plow - La canción del Arado

Inti Illimani una agrupación Musical Universal ,

Inti Illimany is an Universal Musical group whose many songs are based on tradional Peruvian music,

Mayor información-Read more in here http://encontrarte.aporrea.org/media/67/inti%20illimani.pdf

Juan Salvador Gaviota

Just readt the book or even better listen it

Solamente lee el libro o escuchalo

http://www.goear.com/listen.php?v=7892df0

Peruano o Español o Inca

* Lo del Rey hay que darselo a él. Los que nacieron en la colonia eran españoles, salvo aquellos que se identificaron en no serlo, se puede argumentar, pero para qué. En el New York Times, lo ven así, y la mayoría en el mundo lo ve así.

::♀ Por ejemplo, una idea, Gonzalo Pizarro, nacido en España, podríamos decir que fue uno de los primeros peruanos, porque se revela contra la corona española y muere en lo que ahora es nuestro territorio. Los Incas, no eran peruanos eran incas, i.e., '''Quechuas, y Aymarás'''.

::♀ Ser del Cuzco es ser peruano pero también es serlo si eres de cualquier otro sitio y te identificas como tal. Los pre-Incas o las culturas llamadas Pre-colombinas, támpoco eran Incas, támpoco eran Peruanas, eran lo que eran, enclicopédicamente hablando.

::♀ Interpretar es vital, inclusive el Maestro José Carlos Mariátegui, parece que se equivocó, al tratar el "problema del indio". No hay indios en el Perú, Nunca los hubo, la equivocación es de Colón y historícamente y socialmente es importante. Por ejemplo, Por qué no le llamamos eskimos a los árabes, en fin.

::♀ Hay andinos en todo caso, gente originaria de aquellos pueblos que "adornan" lo que ahora proponemos como nuestra historia. Sin embargo, sí tenemos historia propia, gastronomía original, y parece que tenemos mucho de españoles, pero también mucho de los Incas y de los pre-Incas. He ahí nuestro ¡gran tesoro! El Dorado está en todas aquellas culturas Pre-peruanas, muy mal entendidas por propios y extraños, por muchos envidiadas y apedradas por otros tantos. Pero hay también especialistas que darían la vida por entenderlas y aprender más de ellas.

::♀ Muchachos, come me alegra que tengan ese incentivo por aprender y por sacar a la luz de esas sombras retrógradas las verdaderas fuentes de nuestra historia. Siendo realista hay que estar orgulloso de ser Peruano; ya uno sea del Cuzco o de los Barracones; e igual da ser de la Molina o de Miraflores, que del Rímac, de Ciudad y Campo.

::♀ La humanidad está en aprender a ser mejor cada día, de los que como acá en este mundo quieren y buscan conocimiento y por eso saben las limitaciones que esta búsqueda contrae.

::♀ Felicitaciones, el Perú luce mejor, pero como sabemos falta más ... como decia César Vallejo: "Ya va venir el día ponte el alma ..."

::♀ Bueno, del poco tiempo que tengo y que me queda, pues ya algo del resto lo compartí, lo comparto y lo compartiré con todos ustedes, Sinceramente.

PD. Por un si acaso, yo nada impongo, solamente expongo sean ustedes los peruanistas del futuro que hagan virtual y realmente una vida mejor.

OCLC lists

clipped from www.oclc.org

What cartoons made it to OCLC's Top 1000 list?

What was the 1001st item?
Ecclesiastical History, by Eusebius.

• Garfield, by Jim Davis (ranked 15)


• Peanuts, by Charles Schulz (ranked 69)


• Calvin and Hobbes, by Bill Watterson (ranked 77)


• Doonesbury, by Garry Trudeau (ranked 88)


• Far Side, by Gary Larson (ranked 115)


• Dilbert, by Scott Adams (ranked 399)


• Fox Trot, by Bill Amend (ranked 773)

How old are the works on the Top 1000 List? When were they written?

What languages were these works originally written in?

Of the items on the OCLC list, 13 appear on at least 4 other lists:

Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck (ranked 101 on the OCLC list)

Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov (ranked 527)

Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton (ranked 253)

Angela's Ashes, by Frank McCourt (ranked 416)

Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh (ranked 653)

Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger (ranked 347)

Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell (ranked 215)

Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald (ranked 110)

Stallman on Freedom

Richard Stallman gives his interpretation of the four basic freedoms and describes the reasons that propel his activism in pro of the Free Software Foundation and the GNU project. He is the Jeremy Bentham of our Era.

Freedom

graphic by Susan Henson
Fellow Americans, you may wish to copy this icon to your own page, as a way of showing what patriotism means to you.

Una definición en la computación

Esta definición se la di al hijo de un amigo, él cual cursa los primeros años de educación universitaria, en un programa de ingeniería de sistemas. Le gustó tanto que nos propusimos verla en Wikipedia, bueno la pusimos en la enciclopedia, y dice así:

Una computadora (del latín computare -calcular-), también denominada como ordenador o computador, tiene como meta principal, la de recibir y procesar datos para convertirlos en información útil. Una computadora es una colección de circuitos integrados y otros componentes relacionados que puede ejecutar con exactitud, sorprendente rapidez, y de acuerdo a lo indicado por un usuario o automáticamente por otro programa, una múltiple variedad de secuencias o rutinas de instrucciones que son ordenadas, organizadas y sistematizadas en función a una amplia gama de aplicaciones prácticas y precisamente determinadas, proceso al cual se le ha denominado con el nombre de programación y al que lo realiza se le llama programador. La computadora u ordenador, además de la rutina o programa informático, necesita de datos específicos (a estos datos, en conjunto, se les conoce como "Input" en inglés) que deben ser suministrados, y que son requeridos al momento de la ejecución, para proporcionar el producto final del procesamiento de datos, que recibe el nombre de "output". La información puede ser entonces utilizada, reinterpretada, copiada, transferida, o retransmitida a otra(s) persona(s), computadora(s) o componente(s) electrónico(s) local o remotamente usando diferentes sistemas de telecomunicación, pudiendo ser grabada, salvada o almacenada en algún tipo de dispositivo o unidad de almacenamiento.

Nubes Rocosas

John M. Kennedy

[1]

¡Acabo de recibir tal impacto!

que hizo explotar mi corazón como un cristal

en cientos de miles de millones de pedazos.

Fue tal la gravedad de aquel dolor

que estos mismos pedazos me descompusieron

en miles de millones de trillones de partículas.

Me sentí como la mera sustancia de la sustancia vivída,

y es la hora en que se están escondiendo en mis memorias

apareciéndose esparcidas por unas 140 billones de galaxias.

Soy como la parte que no encaja en esta singularidad enferma

No hay dimensiones cuando no hay sinceras emociones

Cómo pudiera sentir ser nada dentro de lo que es menos que la nada.

Porque ya fui destrozado y aniquilado a golpes

desde mis abismos más ignotos e internos 

pasé por ser cada uno de mis egos pero ya no sé quién soy

Me perdí entre tantos y tontos misérrimos látidos.

Al caído, le volvieron nuevamente a caer todos y con todo

Se les unieron las desgracias, las ojeras, y las tormentas,

Le dieron una lección brava a este barro sangriento y malherido,
 

Hasta su propio amor le pegó una sentencia a capella

Usaron el odio más intenso, las noticias más estúpidas 

¡Qué duro son los medios! para darme así al unísono,

Hay más allá de cualquier rincón otro dolor que deberá de ser peor

el mío ya se quedó estático en todo mi cuerpo y yace en mi mente

Es como una nube y mis memorias la hacen parte de este presente.
 

Soy la materia de esas nubes rocosas y dolorosas

habito en la faja öpik-Oort con personas yertas, frías, y pesadas, 
Soy todo ese material de nuestras vidas con un amor eterno.

[2]

¡Disculpa, pero es así como se formaron los planetas! 

y las estrellas y la nada… ¡y el todo!

El todo y la nada se hicieron

en una parte infinitesimal

de un despampanante y alucinante tiempo

del cual, todos creemos, se desprenden

cada uno de esos eternos y galopantes segundos.

Si, es así como a veces nos suceden los universos,

…los planetas,

…las supernovas…

y porqué no, la energía negra

y también hasta la mismísima antimateria.

Disculpa, pero es así como se formó

lo poco que sabemos

… y lo mucho que ignoramos.

Solamente emanan del dolor producido por aquellos inesperados contactos,de mentes agonizantes y concientes

pero destrozadas por el olvido de un amor

y el despecho de un instante.

Soy tierra seca,

y me encuentro girando casi muerto

entre todos los planetas,

cada partícula mía me desgarra

desprendiéndome y esparciendo mi olvido,

por todo este incierto universo

Por lo poco que me queda ya

de mi magra existencia.

Desde este recobijo muy hondo que ofrecen

mis pobres lamentos y tal vez, algún día tú,

con esos tus ojos azules, me acompañarás

Sabrás de qué se trata esta mi queja mal hervida

la verás entre mis cenizas o entre la misma arena

Desde mi calva calavera; o entre una luz azul y roja, 

sentirás todo mi ya apagado fuego,

con ese mismo negro carmín de olor a féretro

con que mi dolor adorna hoy mis pensamientos
Me reconocerás la voz tú,¿quién sabe? Amada mía

Entenderás finalmente el lado humano exacto.

Sí, bueno quizás, algún día me releerás, tú, mi eterna rosa

y comprenderás entonces que el amor es causa de todas las cosas

y cual fue la verdadera causa que por nuestra libertad me hizo escribirte esta prosa solamente para ti y en esta precisa hora.

John Manuel – JMK.

Miércoles, 20 de julio de 2005

@ 12:26:56 p.m.

Mastery

"If people knew how hard I worked to achieve mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all." Michelangelo

Memoria de la Amnesia

I wrote this poem circa 2005, and now I have presented in a poetry competition to be held in Madrid. It is fun and you might want to consider doing it. The results will be announce by August 31st, I'll keep you posted. Well I put the poem in here so you can write your comments about it. In reference to the image is from an old painting of mine, I started painted it circa 1990 but I did not work on it again till 2005, time in which I gave up and left it the way it looks in here. I think it matches the poem; because while thinking in this painting and in the story about an English man with an extreme amnesia with whom I somehow I identified with, since I am very or extremely forgetful. Well, tell me what do you think by commenting below. In addition, a good way to learn to write in Spanish is to write poems, it is fun and fills your understanding of meaningful concepts that are the same no matter in what language you are expressing your emotions. Poetry is an universal language.

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Soy feliz con mi tristeza.
Soy humano en mi bestia.
Soy mal entendido pero muy bien amado.

Ando peleando con la paz fementida.
Ando sin zapatos en zapatillas.
Ando para atrás pero no le quito el negocio a los cangrejos.

Vivo en la ciudad con lo mismo que en el desierto.
Vivo con mi alma puesta, como en un refugio, para poder sentar mi pobre cabeza.
Vivo medio muerto pero para no bajarme, he tirado la escalera.

Mi alma auque descansa con esperanza, confieso que la tengo algo enferma.
Mi alma tiene un espíritu tísico en la sinrazón que existe sobre casi toda existencia.
Mi alma no conoce de musas pero la inspiración maltrata los dedos de su cuerpo.

Cuerpo endeble siento que te mueves con mucha gravedad.
Cuerpo eres un caballo en esa alma que no puede contigo, y te persigue.
Cuerpo te escucho cantar, y quieres quedarte con vida, pero el espíritu manda, y se te va.

Se perciben los momentos, y al instante que se forman, así se esfuman sus recuerdos.
¡Yo no entiendo! ¡Esto de ser nunca siendo, sin dejar ni un segundo de querer serlo!
Vivir con uno mismo, y encontrarse cada día con todos los rostros nuevos. ¿Quiénes serán?
¿Son de alguna ciudad o de otro pueblo? Donde todos bien te conocen, pero tú, nunca a ellos.
Yo sí no muero porque nunca termino de escribir una poesía a la ¡Memoria de la amnesia!

The Ruminated Apple

By JMK

Wow! Life by itself is the most difficult subject to learn, it just takes all your life and after one Life-cycle you are perhaps just starting to understand something about it, more likely so, if you become educated! Because, education allows you to learn from the knowledge learned by others, and more importantly, it is to learn those inquiries (subjects) that have taken and are taking many thousands life-cycles to grasp, document and applied to improve our way of living. Education is a shortcut and it is an anthology, a compilation of our very best, so we can repeat it and also of our very worse, so we won't dare to do it again.

Notwithstanding, I am glad to be enrolled in this course [Life] even though nobody have formally, asked me to be enrolled in it, and before I knew it, I was getting registered in at the maternity unit of some unknown hospital. For the some part of my life I did not know that I existed at all. Now, that I know better, I so embarrassed thinking about my mother changing those pampers. I just did not know that I was a part of this huge class, but it seems that enrollment has rapidly increased since I have born and now we have around 6 billion or so of students in class. What can I say? I am living a class that I don’t know when will be ended but I know it will continue after my existence, and paradoxically this seems perfectly fine for me, it is natural to die; moreover, I willingly want to stay in it for as long as I must! Gosh! I am ‘fighting’ every minute for being in here even though my growing bills and pains keep rolling every day or so.

What do you think or for this matter feel? I am curious about your ‘take’ on this. Therefore poste it in here when you fell like it.

A moment of reflection or rumination every day is like eating “one apple a day” only that instead to keep the doctors away from you, keeps the psychiatrists, psychotherapists, mind-readers, gurus, shamans, astrologers, counselors, social workers, case planners, financial advisers, lawyers, and a cadre of others like them, away, especially from your pockets. You only need an effective mind-opener, i.e. a teacher or perhaps my blog or many blogs, to assist you to acquire those skills needed to be an effective life-long learner within our global class in which many people are learning as well as competing for the same limited resources.

Therefore the recipe at hand is: For your metabolic diet: Eat one apple a day, and on the other hand, for your metacognition diet: take a brief moment for conducting one elemental reflection or rumination per day [Self-awareness].

There is happiness in harmony too. Reflecting on yourself or others or both, enhance your chance for obtaining a positive balance, tolerance and proper understanding of your circumstance and how to go about your needs and objectives. Your comments are always welcomed and highly appreciated.

Veritas

This is a close-up of a painting. I painted it "a la prima" at the Art Students League of New York, when I was monitoring a Saturday class.

An Exploration on Organizational Change

Effective Change Models for Managing Merging Organizations with seemed Conflicting Cultures

By John Manuel K.

This study surveys different change models & how to understand and managing change facing two conflicting cultures in the verge to be merged. For effecting the abstraction, I have named these two corporations with seemingly opposite & conflicting cultures as: "AAA" & "OOO"

Change alone is Unchanging

Heraclites AKA Heraclitus (c. 535- c.475 BC.)

As a result of the identification of many potential conflicting cultural factors between the AAA and the OOO Corporations, and enacting the role as the AAA Director of the Fulfillment Applications of the information department, I became aware of the need to study effective change models not only to manage the merging process between the AAA and the OOO corps., but also to create and strategic plan that it will use to optimize the whole merging process. As a major milestone for creating such a strategic plan, this study starts by exploring three organizational change models, by identifying situations in which their application will be most effective, and finally, by analyzing advantages and/or disadvantages in following these models.

Opposition brings concord.

Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

Heraclites AKA Heraclitus (c. 535- c.475 BC.)

The Meaning of Change

I understand change as a “flux”, or a process and not as a final product or as a specific result that is manifested before our consciousness as a result of our instantiation of this process under our observation, with the purpose to study a determined object(s), as in here the purpose of study is about organizational Change models. It is a cyclical, episodic or periodic study indeed.

In the first chapter, “the purpose”, of his book [by the way the young Hillary Clinton (our next President), would have had written her thesis about this author]: “Rules for Radicals,” Saul D. Alinsky (1971) wrote: “Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.” I assume this quote personifies well what is about to happen between two cultures which seem to have some many ways of doing things differently, as the AAA and OOO corporations: but we are conducting this research to be better equipped to managing an effective change.

It feels lacerating, but as the record shows, if we do not consider the human factors and culture the merging process will be erratically implemented with serious repercussion not only in the morale of the staff but also in our performance and lost of market value, instead to have positive outcome. It would probably defeat the merger’s purpose.

In this regard, I prize the inputs of Jerry (Gerald) Weinberg who has written many books combining seemed equidistant subjects as technical software development and human factors in improving productivity, this is a sort of software anthropology.

In an interview Weinberg explained how he realized the importance of people transformation in the Software Development of Technical organizations, and how this perception lead him to study the work of Virginia Satir, who, Weinberg, indicated that she is often referred as “The Columbus of Family therapy” and how her Satir’s work forms the basis of Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP), basically Weinberg state during this interview what it was his main “discovery”: “…The Software team works together to produce software; the family works to make new people …” (Dorset House Publishing, 2006). Thus, as implausible as it may sound, Weinberg also ‘confessed’ in this interview that he learned more about effective programming from Satir that from any other person in his life (Dorset House Publishing, 2006). Weinberg’s research supports our newly gained understanding that human factors are of primary importance for technical organizations, especially when they are facing an eminent cultural clash as again it seems to be the case with AAA and OOO.

Change Models

Organizations are made by people, thus Virginia Satir estates, “Change happens one person at a time” (Smith, 2006). Weinberg further states that the Satir Change model implies, “… one day at a time, one choice at a time …” (AYE conference, 2006). The whole point is that the organizational change occurs in the individuals, theretofore, in every choice, in every day, in every transaction and the integration of all his “micro-changes”, I will dare to state, quantum changes, will effect and affect a systemic change in the organizations.

Some outcomes will and can be anticipated properly but others that should/could be anticipated, perhaps might be ignored, or not addressed accordingly and thus chaos could and will be the unexpected guest of an otherwise avoided situation. Returning once more to Weinberg writes: “Change is a long-term process, but a living organization lives in the immediate present. Thus, without careful management, long-term change is invariably sacrificed to short-term expedience” (Research Triangular Park, 2006). In this regard, I would rather be effective than efficient.

Thus we can see that organizational changes start at the level of each individual, each transaction, each choice, at everyday, as matter of fact multiple of these changes happens simultaneously, some are perceptible and some are not. As a company in its way to be merged with a company like OOO with antagonistic culture we at AAA must understand some main organizational change models to assist us to put our upcoming merger at easy. There are three main types of organization change models: top-down; transformational leadership; and strategic approaches (Kinsman & Laporte, 2006).

The Satir Merger Model

Figure 1 Satir Change Model

As we can see, the Satir Change Model above (Figure 1), is centered on the tenet that improvement is always possible. Virginia Satir developed this model to assist people to improve their lives by transforming the way they see and express themselves. In this way this change model is transformational in nature. It is a five-phase change model (see Figure 1) displaying the effects each phase has on emotions, cognitive, behaviors and physiology. According to Satir using the principles of this model facilitate how organizations or group process change and how to assist other organization or groups in processing change as well.

This model could be applied in any situation: Before, during and after the completion of the merger. For instance, the phase 1, called the “Late Status Quo” represents AAA culture as is right now, a people-oriented, family like environment whereby there is a sense of belonging, staff knows what to expect, how to react, and how to behave. There are policies and these policies are known and well accepted within the organization (Satir, 1991).

In the second phase, known as “resistance” in this model, the OOO culture is depicted as the “foreign element”, this is the conflict for AAA staff and a probable source of uncertainty, doubt, and discomfort. The Satir Change model allows the understanding of how the situation would appear for the staff since their stability is going to be compromised by the OOO and its conflicting culture. Restless behavior and some another resistance tactics can be developed among the staff as a mechanism of defense. Is in this phase that this model prescribes to assist employees to become aware of their reaction of denial, avoidance or blaming by opening up to others staff members.

I the third phase, in this model: the chaos, the merge eventually has happened and this phase discovers the unknown, because for more plans that management could make always there are many details that remain unknown to us, and for such “obscure.” There will be employees that could feel nervous after the loss of some of their counterparts because the merger and they probably will develop symptoms of anxiety and other characteristic of the sorts. This phase should be expected by managers as erratic periods and also as an opportunity for assisting staff to search for beneficial relationships with the “foreign element” the new staff and culture from OOO. This is the stage where under Satir Change model transformation happens (Weinberg, 1997).

In Phase four, i.e. the integration, the staff of AAA will encounter at least some positive attributes in OOO and in consequence new projects and relationships will be implemented rapidly and with positive energy, and thus we arrive at Phase five: New Status Quo, whereby change have been assimilated, the Merger have been completed and a new environment has emerged and a new sense of accomplishment and enhancing possibilities are permeating this new organization that has been derived from the Merger of AAA and OOO (Satir, 1991).

The advantage of this model is that provides to us proven ways to deal with the entire process of the merger, The Satir Change Model simplifies the scenario of how people react when face change, as in this case a merger, and what management needs to do about in each phase or stage of the process. I hardly see any disadvantage, only that requires a lot planning and support from management since is very granular and its focused in many dimensions, including the physiological reactions of the individuals. I would gladly use this model because it seems to be centered on transforming cultures by assistant each staff member to adapt to the pressing demands of doing so.

Nadler-Tushman Change Model: Key Variables

This model observes how change is managed or face, according to the extent in which change(s) can be anticipated, thus there are two types of changes: Anticipatory changes are planned changes based on expected situations. Example: Insurance needed for Paintings in the Exhibition and reactive changes: Changes made in response to unexpected situations. What decisions you make when you were alone at home and suddenly you fractured your femur and fibula by accident? (Kritner, 2004).

The Nadler and Tushamn model provides the following steps:

1) Identify the problems and Situational analysis - Get support of key power groups

2) Demonstrate leadership support of the change

3) Use symbols / Create identification w/ the change and appearance of a critical mass of support

4) Build in stability

5) Surface/create dissatisfaction w/ the current state

6) Obtain the appropriate levels of participation in planning/implementing change

7) Reward desired behavior in transition to future state

8) Provide time and opportunity to disengage from current state

9) Develop and communicate a clear image of the future state

10) Use multiple and consistent leverage points

11) Use transition devices

12) Obtain feedback about the transition state and evaluate success

This case Model primary advantage is that considers also what we could do when facing unexpected changes, as we know for this merger we need a flexible yet a structure model that guide us in the process, this modes does just that by providing opportunities for disengagement and also using multiple leverage points. One of the best situation to use this model is during the implementation phase when new rules or policies are going to be applied to newly created groups and projects has been formed within perhaps same or new departments. The disadvantage is the amount of time that will take to analyze, and for planning the strategic plan to facilitate this merger.

Models of Action Research: Cummings & Worley Model et al

The majority of research is aimed to create knowledge; action research is a way to conduct studies which engages in both: taking action and creating knowledge constituting a theory of action (Coghlan & Brannick, 2001, p.xi). Organizations use action research models to learn how to change significant aspect of its system by involving their members to actively study their own behaviors, from here action research shows the new knowledge emanated from the self-reflection of the participants on the whole research process.

Many actions action research models exist, all of them includes in their definition as iterative, collaborative, and change effort that involve needs analysis, plan of action based on the needs analysis, implementation of the plan of action and finally evaluation of the process. I identified four of this models Cummings and Worley Model, Burke’s Adaptation of W. L. French classic 11–step Model, Frohman, Sashkin and Kavanagh’s Seven-Phase Model and Pearce and Robinsons Six-Step Model. The entire aforementioned models are very similar but the most notable or the one that is more referred, in my literature review, is the Cummings and Worley Model (Cummings & Worley, 1991, p. 155) here is the well delineated stages:

1) Motivating Change creating readiness for change and overcoming resistance to change

2) Creating a Vision - Describing the Core Ideology and Constructing the Envisioned Future

3) Development political support -- Assessing Change Agent Power and Identifying Key stakeholders and Influencing stakeholders.

4) Managing the Transition - Activity Planning and commitment planning and management structure.

5) Sustaining Momentum - Providing Resources for Change and Building a Support System for Change Agents and Developing New Competencies and Skills and Reinforcing New Behaviors

The Cummings and Worley model takes in account the anxiety and other emotional factors introducing in its first “prescription”: Motivating change by creating readiness for change, very interesting concept, it includes leadership because it compel to create a vision a core ideology, in this sense is also a transformational change mode. And takes in account the power by identifying key people, I think that this model also is applicable for the merger, especially in the planning and commitment for facilitate the merger by creating appropriate structures of management to sustain development into a new culture.

There are many advantages, in using this model principally; it is straight forward, as it appears to be easy to follow, and on the other hand, few disadvantages can be noticed about this model, perhaps is too compact and lack of specificity to anticipate unknowns.

In closing we have idenfied tree change models: The Satir Change, Nadler & Tushman, and the Cummings & Worley Change model. We have explored situations in which they can be utilized and finally, we analyze each model, according to their advantage or disadvantages in following these models.

References

Alinsky, S. D. (1971). Rules for Radicals. New York: Random House.

Anderson, P. & Tushman, M. L. (eds.) (2004). Managing Strategic Innovation and Change - a Collection of Readings - Second Edition. New York: Oxford University

AYE (Amplifying Your Effectiveness) Conference. NoMoreResolutions. Retrieved January 25, 2006, from http://www.ayeconference.com/wiki/scribble.cgi?read=NoMoreResolutions.

Burke, W. W. (1982). Organization development: Principles and practices. Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman.

Coghlan, D., & Brannick, T. (2000). Doing action research in your own organization. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Cummings, T. G. & Worley C. G. (2001). Organization Development and Change - Seventh Edition.Mason, OH: South-Western College Publishing - Thomson Learning.

My Art is just living-Being a Human Being

I feel that a great part of being a human being consists in expressing thoughts, [whether these are conceptual or non-conceptual, i.e., a priori] sensations, observations, feelings and emotions. The behavior of my art is hyperactive after rather random periods of prolonged contemplation. When I paint, I enjoy the most doing it using Oils; but l have produced some paintings in gauche, watercolors, temperas, and pastels.

I worked in wax as in clay or wood and stones as well to create my 3D forms or sculptures. I have designed, and produced Jewelry with diamonds and other color precious stones. I created logos and posters for several companies or commercial and educational events. I enjoyed working in Photoshop, and GIMP. I have produced, directed and written scripts for "shorts" created for academic dissemination.

I consider that my art is living. I am a multi-disciplinarian and since we are living again the dark ages but in its digitalized version, far from being a crusader, I see my self as a compacted renaissance man. I will work until the end of my days. Living is communicating, and learning how to bring beauty to one's own life while changing uncontrollably the unknown and obscure to a yet another unknown; but with this new version, we somehow could build one or perhaps many pleasant paradigms for helping us to cope with whatever the reality outside us is. From this "neounknown" we then, could foresee possible futures, all of which we, kind of, do not want to calculate it with exact precision either, e.g. few people want to know in what day, at what time and how they would eventually die. We even do not want to think about it. I remember in here, those thoughts attributed to Socrates, "Those who know how to die, Sure they know how to live".

Art is many things as for the many people of the world, each has their own way of perceiving it, but even though we all appreciated it when we see it. Then, Art "acts" for us like a door that "opens", before our mind's eyes, all our knowledge, ignorance and wonder, almost at once and with such an intensity that we could recognize it instantaneously, even if we do not know what that object means, we are attracted to it. Perhaps it does not matter, at all, to know it but to feel it. Nietzsche wrote : "It is not the duration, it is the intensity what makes a feeling superior." Art is Art because resolves our living with a meaningful minimum set of impressions, expressions or both at the same time and forever. Keats in his "Ode the Urn Greek" explain to us: "Truth is Beauty, Beauty is truth." That is it! You have experienced eternity and this will form part of you. It will never change in you no matter how many times you think you have changed. It will remain the same. Hence and thereof we have always this human urgency or need to search for all things that we consider Art.

It all depends what you are looking for or even though Art can awake you when you were not even looking for, aware of or paying attention to it. It traps you. Therefore impels and propels our most deepest emotions. It gives us a direction, a purpose, a sense with full desires. Opens our Skinner's box. Injects full ideas in our blood and dilates our arteries and pupils. It makes us conscious of our existence.

Point blank, the only fact of being able to survive one minute more, as being alive and knowing it, constitutes art. Therefore, as Siddhartha emphasized, my truly profession is to know myself as I found out this today, and Gurdjieff and Outspenky knew it all along. Art is just living.