WERNER ERHARD

The Barbados Group, an international group of scholars, consultants and practitioners brought together by Werner Erhard, is committed to creating a new paradigm of performance.  The working name for this new paradigm is “The Ontological Foundations of Performance.”  This new paradigm is based on the fundamental proposition that the performance of an individual, group or organization is a correlate of the way the world in which, and on which, that entity is performing "occurs" for that entity.  This new paradigm also offers access to this "occurring" through a specific use of a distinct aspect of language.

The Barbados Group includes thinkers and experts in leadership and organizational performance:

SIR CHRISTOPHER BALL
Patron, Talent Foundation

PETER BLOCK
Partner, Designed Learning Inc.

ALLAN L. COHEN
Founder and Principal, Allan L. Cohen Consulting

JOSEPH J. DIMAGGIO
Research, Design and Development Director, Landmark Education LLC

WERNER ERHARD
Creator of Transformational Models and Founder of the est Training

BRUCE GREGORY
Senior Science Educator, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

MICHAEL C. JENSEN
Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, Harvard Business School, Senior Advisor, The Monitor Company, Chairman, Social Science Electronic Publishing (SSEP), Inc.

OLGA LOFFREDI
Vice-President of International Affairs and Managing Director, Latin America, Vanto Group, Inc.

DAVID C. LOGAN
Best selling author, lecturer, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business, Senior Partner, CultureSync

ROBERT H. ROSEN
Chairman, CEO, Healthy Companies International

HARRY ROSENBERG
CEO, Landmark Education Enterprises Inc.

ALLAN L. SCHERR
Founder, ALS Consulting

STEVE ZAFFRON
Best selling author, CEO, Vanto Group

MICHAEL E. ZIMMERMAN
Director, Center for Humanities and the Arts, Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado, Boulder, Co-leader, Integral Ecology Domain, Integral Institute

MARK A. ZUPAN
Dean, Simon Graduate School of Business, University of Rochester

The Barbados Group has a commitment to communicate and further the ideas of this new paradigm in the world. The first publication in book form to come out of the Barbados Group’s exploration and the tenets of “The Ontological Foundations of Performance” is Three Laws of Performance, the 2009 best selling book by Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan. 

References and Links:

Barbados Group for Development of a New Paradigm for Performance Research Paper Series - SSRN

Three Laws of Performance

Book Review of Three Laws of Performance

SSRN's Barbados Group - Blog by PrawfsBlog

Beyond Coordination and Control is ... Transformation - EconomicPrinciples.com

Discussion of Three Laws of Performance on Facebook

Werner Erhard talk at JFK School of Government, Harvard University