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Narrative Resume
Son of an electric motor-winder and a high school debate queen
in Seattle, Steve worked summers through high school and college
doing lousy jobs. He got a fellowship to Yale though, and
went off to become an engineer - - a bad choice for him, he
found out quickly. People issues grabbed his attention, so
he decided along about his Senior year to do graduate work
at the University of Michigan.
Those were the 60s...
great days for politics, life, and learning. Working at the
Institute for Social Research (still the largest social science
research outfit in the country) was fun, as was doing management
development and fieldwork with big companies in New York,
Pittsburgh, and Mississippi. I had good mentors in Rensis
Likert, and many key authors in management such as Chris Argyris
and Ron Lippitt. Summers sometimes took me to Seattle for
teaching, fishing, and falling in love.
Steve's California journey
started at the Claremont Colleges where he was soon chairing
a Department of Psychology, working alongside Peter Drucker,
and publishing with the Quality of Work Life Center at UCLA.
He's long been at Cal Poly, though he is known to "take
off" now and again. During the 1980's he served as a
training manager for Hughes Aircraft and develop DoD award-winning
quality improvement programs.
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Steve loves to combine work and travel in the developing countries
of the world.. He's provided leadership and coordination for
projects in the Caribbean, Bangladesh, and Tanzania, in addition
to providing staff development workshops for officers of the
World Health Organization and providing consultations on human
resources project strategy. With strong international interests
he has helped Cal Poly develop links in Swaziland and Armenia,
and has his heart set on higher education development in Viet
Nam and China.
But he also sees Internet
as a true revolution in the Being of man.. a mega-step toward
biological progress. Already, companies who are "getting with
it" are seeing obscene ROI numbers. We do need to worry about
all of those who will not get on board. There are frightening
aspects of Virtual Reality... though ours is largely "virtual
now", and we're only starting to appreciate it. The digital
revolution is truly profound. There's nothing more important
for any of us to understand or teach. (Thankfully, Third World
countries often 'get it', and there are supportive global
communities that can be joined.)
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