Werner Erhard

Werner Erhard continues to develop methodologies that provide individuals and organizations with the means to design new contexts and paradigms – allowing them to think more independently and creatively, and to take more effective action. The following illustrate some of the work that Werner Erhard has been involved in recently.

This course in developmental production is a collaborative work between Werner Erhard, Dr. Michael Jensen, Steve Zaffron and Kari Granger.

The course is a leadership laboratory where instructors work with the participants to create direct access to the ways of being, thinking, planning, and action required to be a leader and to exercise leadership effectively – in any situation, and no matter the circumstances. The course has been taught at the Universtity of Rochester Simon School of Business and the United States Air Force Academy. Read More

Werner Erhard and Professor Michael Jensen define integrity and discuss their research linking integrity and personal and corporate performance. They address integrity in a developing academic paper, whose primary purpose is to present a positive model of integrity that provides a powerful access to increased performance for individuals, groups, organizations, and societies.

This academic paper was initially presented at the Gruter Institute Conference on Values in June 2006. Since then it has been presented over 40 times, most recently at the Social Innovation Research Seminar Series, at INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France, March 16, 2009. Read More

The Barbados Group is an international group of scholars, consultants and practitioners who were brought together by Werner Erhard. The Group's specific intention is to create 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 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. Read more

Watch Werner Erhard at Harvard University Kennedy School of Government speaking about "The Ontological Foundations of Performance." October 15, 2009.

The Mastery Foundation is a non-profit, volunteer, interfaith organization established in 1983. The work of the Mastery Foundation is to empower religious and grassroots community leaders in creating new conversations and possibilities in the areas of ministry, peace and reconciliation, and community empowerment.

The Eranos Foundation was founded in the 1930’s to provide a point of contact and opportunity for discussion for thinkers from disparate fields of knowledge ranging from depth psychology and comparative religion to history, literary criticism and folklore. The yearly conferences or "Tagungs" were frequented by luminaries like Jung, Martin Buber, Henry Corbin, D.T. Suzuki and others. Read More

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