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"MetaSystem is willing to challenge me, confront me and to hold me accountable... to get breakthrough performance in my work." R. Scott Shively Senior Vice President Sales & Marketing Alpharma Pharmaceuticals LLC "Our team hit the ground running after a huge merger. MetaSystem's consultants helped us get clear very quickly on new roles, expectations and operating principles that we needed to get to the business of getting results." John Graham Vice President Sanofi-Aventis Pharma "It's hard to imagine how we could have ever operated as a team without MetaSystem's unique meeting process." Dr. Anthony Blisko Director Mid-Hudson Medical Center "Many times a CEO does not have anyone with whom he can talk, discuss ideas and express concerns. The coaching program with MCG has given me this and much more." John Vanderslice CEO, Miraval Holding Revolution "MetaSystem truly understands how to drive measurable outcomes for their clients." Brenda K. Helps Vice President Miraval Holding Revolution "Their coaching talents have been invaluable to the success of efforts." Frank Cerasoli, Jr. Ph.D. Senior Director Altana Pharma US "It was a complete success to me; people had fun, took risks and at the same time understood how valuable the exercise was for the groups. ... So, well done again to all of you!" Valerie Belroin Sanofi-Aventis Global Leadership Conference "Not only has the business grown, but I feel I have also grown as a leader." John Vanderslice CEO, Miraval Holding Revolution   Be sure to also visit our sister site: Equine Alchemy	The Cutting Edge A Newsletter for Organization Development from MetaSystem. Q1/2003   MetaSystem Consulting Group A consulting group founded in Paris in 1976 and now based in New York and Paris. We specialize in organization development and change management. MetaSystem emphasizes systemic approaches to the design of work processes, roles, relationships, structures and strategies. Table of Contents: What has MCG been up to… Beyond The Blues - MCG Gets Their Clients Jamming, by Paul Kwiecinski Free offer: The Essential Elements of Accountability   What has MCG been up to… Published 'Team Coaching" written by founder Alain Cardon, in France. Alain Cardon was a keynote speaker at the International Coaching Federation Conference in Barcelona last fall. His discussion of the groundbreaking Team Coaching approach was very well received. To find out more, there are excerpts in English on his website. We are looking forward to publishing in the US this year! Beyond the Blues is up and running! Writing and performing the blues on-stage with a great band has become one of the avenues of choice for organization development. Pfizer, Endo Pharma, Aventis and Millennium Pharmaceutical are just some of the successful organizations that have chosen to sing and go beyond the blues to problem solve and create great energy needed to move their organizations forward. The pharmas are leading the way, but we look forward to spreading the music around to other industries in 2003. It's been a hard winter but we have been playing in the sun and surf with Club Med! Club Med is not only one of our clients; they have the greatest meeting space! Imagine having all of the fun and doing it in an environment that is great for getting out of the box! Dominican Republic, Bahamas, Turks and Caicos to name a few. Stay tuned for updates as they come in!!!   Beyond The Blues - MCG Gets Their Clients Jamming Do you wanna know what's really going on with your employees, clients or co-workers? Get 'em to write and sing the blues! It's 7:38 on a hot Miami evening. The ballroom is slowly filling with people from all over the world - jet lagged, disheveled and a bit dazed from the conference's endless meetings. The house lights dim, and one-by-one the musicians take the stage. The guitar player strikes his first long drawling chord and music rises from the glowing amps. The crowd - surprised at first -settles in, and a low buzz sweeps through the room. By the end of the first song the mood has changed as the sound of the blues starts to work its magic… You may be wondering why this, in a business newsletter! This article is about using music as a force and as a springboard to move an organization forward while accessing reserves of energy and productivity heretofore untapped. The music is the blues, the father of almost all of the popular music heard for the last eighty years. It's simple, yet profound, and based on speaking the truth in good times and in bad. It's understood at a gut level by anyone who has listened to Western popular music. A band from Aventis Market Analysis has got the blues! It is the goal of every organization to get beyond their blues and achieve the success they're looking for. To do this they have to listen to what the blues have to say. What's really going on? Where are people at with that, assessed emotionally as well as with the conventional metrics? The Beyond The Blues work identifies the music people want to make in their work-the song they want to create-personally, as a team, and as an organization, and helps you develop the tools and systems to create and produce that music. The music is the results they want to create, AND the way they want to create them. After a BTB interactive event where people have written and performed these songs, there is a window of opportunity; they're in that space that they have created themselves through music. They composed and performed their own music, it wasn't some jingle or corporate anthem that someone played for them-they spoke the truth, and had a blast doing it. The opportunity is to utilize this "blue zone" they are in to approach the issues and processes of their work from a new perspective. The innovation consultants are always speaking about this place. Now that we have it, what should we do with it? There is a half-life of a couple of days, after which the emotional state will run its course, and the event will become more of "a fun thing we once did." The key is to engage in some meaningful change work that builds on the new awareness. The raw material of this work is: 1) The themes expressed in the songs, and 2) The process used to create them. This is the jumping off point for Beyond The Blues. Themes are business issues, areas of focus, and problems to be solved. These issues have just been presented in a way that they have never been expressed before. It's a great opportunity to engage dis-continuous improvement, a quantum jump in the way problems are approached, how potential solutions are generated, and what we decide to act on and implement. The themes and process changes are tackled at the same time, as teams are given new approaches with which they can change their bottlenecks and non-productive patterns while taking on the issues they identified. In his article The Holographic Organization, Alain Cardon states: "The concept of holographics is as simple as it is universal; like the saying, 'Observe a grain of sand and you will perceive the universe. Beyond the Blues is holographics at their best. A group's processes and strategies, the song they write and how they do it, observed over a few minutes can illustrate and reflect strategies over months, years, or tens of years." Organizational holographics, through Beyond the Blues, can be used to diagnose organizational problems by giving clear global structure and process definitions of their systems. This diagnosis facilitates process and structure-oriented interventions that modify the system, thus improving results. More on how we go about this in future issues… Paul Kwiecinski is an organizational development consultant and business coach specializing in helping clients create unprecedented levels of achievement through vision and action based on systemic understanding and leveraging of their organization. He uses his experience and training in team development, coaching, leadership training, visioning, project management, strategic planning, and innovation to work with his clients to create the business they always wanted to have. Paul has a baccalaureate degree in Management from the University of Notre Dame and has also worked as a project manager for Ford Motor Company.   Free offering: Accountability… Is your organization accountable? Are you holding each other accountable for delivering results? What part are you playing in the accountability culture of you organization??? Just email us at info@MetaCG.com and we will send you a free copy of "The Essential Elements of Accountability" a matrix of Leadership Approaches, their subsequent organizational behaviors and how this impacts accountability. Be ready to identify yourself and your organization!   TO SUBSCRIBE to this Newsletter: Send "subscribe Cutting Edge" in body of message to info@metacg.com. To unsubscribe, send an email to info@metacg.com with "remove" in the subject line. To find out how MetaSystem can help your organization attain unprecedented results faster than you thought possible, contact us now. Be sure to also visit our sister site, Equine Alchemy. Copyright MetaSystem, Inc., 2003
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