Papers and Articles

PAPERS

Hunger Project Source Document Document written to describe the contextual shift in perspective inspiring the creation of the international non-profit, The Hunger Project

A New Model of Integrity: An Actionable Pathway to Trust, Productivity and Value "We present a positive model of integrity that, as we distinguish and define integrity, provides powerful access to increased performance for individuals, groups, organizations, and societies."

Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological Model Written in collaboration with Harvard Business School Professor Michael C. Jensen, Steve Zaffron and Kari Granger titled  “The Ontological Foundations of Leadership and Performance: Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership

A New Paradigm of Individual, Group and Organizational Performance Werner Erhard and the Barbados Group - The Barbados Group members are: Sir Christopher Ball, Peter Block, Allan L. Cohen, Joseph J. DiMaggio, Werner Erhard, Bruce Gregory, Michael C. Jensen, Olga Loffredi, David C. Logan, Brian Regnier, Robert H. Rosen, Harry Rosenberg, Allan L. Scherr, Steve Zaffron, Michael E. Zimmerman, Mark A. Zupan.

“Creating Leaders: An Ontological Model” Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, Kari L. Granger, (October 2010).  Harvard Business School NOM Working Paper No. 11-037; Barbados Group Working Paper No. 10-10; Simon School Working Paper No. FR-10-30.  Available at SSRN, In: THE HANDBOOK FOR TEACHING LEADERSHIP, Scott Snook, Nitin Nohria, Rakesh Khurana, eds., Sage Publications, 2011.

PRESENTATIONS

Slideshow Presentation - A New Model of Integrity: An Actionable Pathway to Trust, Productivity and Value Written in collaboration with Harvard Business School Professor Michael C. Jensen titled “Integrity: A Positive Model that Incorporates the Normative Phenomena of Morality, Ethics and Legality”

Slideshow Presentation - Integrity: Where Leadership Begins - A New Model of Integrity: Presented at the Center for Public Leadership, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Boston, Ma., May 10, 2007

A Shot Heard Round The World: Creating a Context for a World Tha Works: In 1980 Werner Erhard delivered a presentation with Buckminster Fuller on creating a context for a world that works. This excpert for the January 1980 Granduate Review discusses the event.

ARTICLES

Revision : Werner Erhard on Transformation and Productivity: An Interview: A discussion of the art and discipline of transformation in the workplace and in life; an interview with Werner Erhard

est: Communication in a Context of Compassion: (1979) Werner Erhard and Victor Gioscia, Ph.D. write about the est Standard Training (est)

Outcome Study by Robert Ornstein, Ph.D.,Charles Swencionis, Arthur Deikman, M.D., Ralph Morris, M.D.: In early 1974, an exhaustive survey (680 items) was completed by 10.5% of the est graduate population. The survey asked graduates to report their experience of health and well-being after the est training and their experience of health and well-being the year before the training. Respondents reported strong positive health a nd well-being changes since takingthe est Standard Training, especially in the areas of psychological health and well-being.

Abstract of Study: The Children of est: A study of the experience and percieved effects of a large group awareness training (the Forum) by Charles W. Denison, November 1994

Report on The est Training: by Humberto Maturana

est- A Philosophical Appraisal: by Michael Zimmerman

Assessment of the Philosophical Significance of the est training: by Hubert Dreyfus

Scene magazine - Interview with Werner Erhard: An interview in San Francisco's Scene Magazine with Werner Erhard in 1982.

Breaking Out of The Box: by Debra Feinstein, Benchmark Magazine - A Xerox publication.

Create Breakthroughs in Performance By Changing The Conversation: by Perry Pascarella," In his work to develop an approach to performance that will predictably produce breakthroughs, Werner Erhard says, 'If you seriously examine any action, you find there are always two sides of it: the side from which you can explain it and the side from which you can produce it....In individual and organizational performance, most of us attempt to produce action by working in the after-the-fact realm of description, analysis, explanation, and prescription. Rarely do we consider that producing an action requires a whole different way of looking at it. If youwant to have a dramatic impact on performance, you need access to the source of action.'"

The Three Laws of Performance in Manufacturing - Industry Week: With one action that took less than a minute, a manger transformed how steelmaking occurred to the mill workers, and in so doing, altered their performance -by Steve Zaffron, CEO, Vanto Group and Dave Logan,Partner, CultureSync

Create a Bigger Picture of Health The "participation" that Werner Erhard talks about is participation in relationships and participation in work that serves a vision or a context larger than your own personal survival. Your health and wellness are by-products of a life that is focused and ripe with meaning, full of generous engagement with others in the creation of a world that works for everybody. -From an ongoing series of columns entitled Simply Well by John W Travis MD, MPH

Harvard Business School First Look at A New Paradigm of Individual, Group and Organizational Performance

Harvard Business School Working Knowledge, December 3, 2010

“You Don’t Alter What You Know, You Alter the Way You Know It: Conversation with Werner Erhard about The est Training, Philosophy, ‘Enlightenment,’ Authoritarianism and Legitimate Authority, Arrogance, Leadership and Vision”, The Network Review, Northeast Edition, Volume 1, Number 4, September 1983.

Interview with Michael Jensen on Integrity: interview by Karen Christensen on the topic of integrity. "There is confusion between integrity, morality and ethics. My co-authors, Werner Erhard and Steve Zaffron and I, distinguish integrity, from morality and ethics in the following way. Integrity in our model is honoring your word. As such integrity is a purely positive phenomenon. It has nothing to do with good vs. bad, right vs. wrong behavior. Like the law of gravity the law of integrity just is, and if you violate the law of integrity as we define it you get hurt just as if you try to violate the law of gravity with no safety device. The personal and organizational benefits of honoring one's word are huge -- both for individuals and for organizations -- and generally unappreciated.

Harvard Business Review: How to Fix Misunderstandings at Work and in Life: Dan Palotta discusses some principles from The Three Laws of Performance, written by Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan, drawn from Werner Erhard's new Paradigm for Performance

The est Experience: from Powers of Mind Part II,, by Adam Smith

The Heart of The Matter What is Transformation? Werner Erhard answers that question in this article from 1984.

est in Prison by Earl Babbie, This article presents an initial evaluation of the use of the Erhard Seminars Training (est) in the prison system.

The est Training in the Prisons A basis for the Transformation of Corrections: by Mark Woodard

Interview with Werner Erhard 1976 Interview with Werner Erhard by John Johns, "What is, is, And what isn't isn't"

Integrity is a Strange Loop A Review by Law Professor Jeffery Lipshaw of “Integrity: A Positive Model that Incorporates the Normative Phenomena of Morality, Ethics and Legality”

Top Ten - Legal Ethics & Professional Responsibility Weekly Top Ten: SSRN Legal Ethics & Professional Responsibility

est: Communication in a Context of Compassion The purpose of the est training is the transformation of the ability to experience living, so that the situations one is trying to change or is putting up with clear up just in the process of life itself.

In Training, Free Choice is the Key Effective training must recognize and build on the contribution that each worker already makes while providing the opportunity to move even further ahead.

The Mind's Dedications to Survival The purpose of this report is to discuss some observations and conclusions relative to the mind's dedication to survival, a central theoretical concept in the est training.

The est Standard Training by Werner Erhard and Victor Gioscia, in which the est Standard Training is described.

Ethiopia 1988: A Remarkable Achievement

Some Aspects of the est Training and Transpersonal Psychology a discussionwith Werner Erhard and James Fadiman, lecturer, author, and past president of the Association for Transpersonal Psychology

Werner Erhard on Transformation and Productivity: An Interview a discussion not only of transformation in the workplace, but of the art and discipline of transformation itself

Being Well "Our intention in the following essay is to offer the reader an opportunity to reflect on an issue which is central in our time—the search for a new paradigm—a profound new definition of human well being." (View document at scribd.com)

Werner Erhard and Other's Scholarly Papers

Business Daily Africa: Sharing Personal Problems Spurs Success at Work

An Interview with Werner Erhard from PSA Magazine, 1976
Question: "You say that people are dissatisfied because they think they have what they want but they find that they're not really experiencing it. What are the barriers to their experiencing it?"
Werner Erhard: "The simplified answer is that people seem to exist in three parts. We have the outer part, which is the thing we put together to survive in life - our persona, our ego. This best-foot-forward face. Underneath that we're trying to hide, particularly from ourselves, the person we're afraid we might be: small -thinking, frightened, concerned about our own survival, pretending arrogant. So we put on the face, and underneath that is the thing we're afraid we might be. Some of us put on the face so successfully that we don't even know this person we're afraid we are.
Underneath that is the self. So the barrier to the experience of who we are is the unwillingness to confront who we are afraid we are, or dramatizing who we are afraid we are. You see, some people are acting out their fear of who they might be. That is the simple answer." (excerpt)

Research on the Benefits of The est Training, Earl Babbie

Werner Erhard's est Training in the Prisons, Mark Woodard

Further Reading

BOOKS

Leaders: The Strategies for Taking Charge, by Warren G. Bennis and Burt Nanus, New York: HarperCollins, 2003.

Community: The Structure of Belonging, by Peter Block, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, May 1, 2008.

Inventing Reality: Physics as Language, by Bruce Gregory. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1990.

The Three Laws of Performance, by Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan

Werner Erhard:The Transformation of a Man, The Founding of est, a biography by William Warren Bartley, III