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PlexusCalls
Friday,  October 1, 2010
1-2 PM Eastern Time
641-715-3300, access code 485743#
Complexity, Leadership, and the Ecologies of Innovation 
Guests: Jeffrey Goldstein, James Hazy, and Benyamin Lichtenstein
 
Drs. Hazy, Goldstein and Lichtenstein will discuss their new book,  Complexity and the Nexus of Leadership: Leveraging Nonlinear Science to Create Ecologies of Innovation. 
Jeffrey Goldstein, PhD, is Full Professor at the Adelphi University  School of Business, Garden City, New York, and an associate clinical professor at Adelphi's Derner Institute for Advanced Psychological Studies. He is a pioneer in the application of complexity theory to organizations and leadership, and wrote The Unshackled Organization, a widely acclaimed book on the subject. He is the author of more than 80 scholarly articles and is co-editor of the journal Emergence: Complexity an Organization. His research and consulting focuses on applying the insights from complexity science to leadership and transformation, in order to support sustainability and learning in entrepreneurial companies, large corporations, and non-profit organizations.  He is the author or editor of numerous books including: Complexity Science and Social Entrepreneurship: Adding Social Value through Systems Thinking; Complex Systems Leadership Theory; Annuals of Emergence: Complexity and Organization; and Classic Complexity. Jim Hazy, MBA, EdD has more than 25 years of senior executive experience at leading US companies and has founded several start-up businesses. He is founder and CEO of Leadership Science, LLC, a research and consulting firm dedicated to improving organizational leadership. His prior responsibilities have included Executive Vice President of Business Operations & CFO at an Ernst & Young venture as well as Vice President of Financial Planning & Analysis and Director of M&A at AT&T. He joined Adelphi University after receiving his doctorate with "distinguished honors" from The George Washington University in Washington DC in organizational leadership. He also earned an MBA "with distinction" from the Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania and a BS in mathematics from Haverford College. His research focuses on the intersection of organizational leadership, complexity science, computational organization theory and agent-based modeling. Benyamin Lichtenstein, PhD, or 'Professor Benyamin,' as his students call him, has published more than  40 papers and chapters including articles in internationally recognized journals such as Organization Science, MIT Sloan Management Review, Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, and the Academy of Management Executive, where he received the "Article of the Year" award in 2000. In addition to his professional work, he finds great joy connecting with his wife Sasha and their two children, Simeon and Moriah.

Learn more about Complexity and The Nexus of Leadership at http://complexityleadership.wikispaces.com