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Frans Johansson
“
The Medici Effect: Groundbreaking
Innovation at the Intersection
of Disciplines and Cultures”
by Frans Johansson in Wheelwright Auditorium
Wednesday, February 15, 2006, 7:30 pm - 8:45 pm
This is a free event, but General Admission tickets are required and are available at the Wheelwright Box Office, 108 Spadoni Park Circle 349-2502.
“Conversation with Frans Johansson: How to
Break out of the Pack”
a Q & A with Frans Johansson in Wall Auditorium
Thursday, February 16, 2006, 10:00 am - 11:15 am |
Frans Johansson, consultant, entrepreneur and founder
and former CEO of an enterprise software company, is
the 2005 Celebration of Inquiry Conference keynote speaker.
He has spoken extensively to companies such as Ernst
and Young, General Motors, JP Morgan, Kodak and the World
Bank on issues of innovation and managing diversity.
He has had speaking engagements in London, Prague, Copenhagen
and most recently in Greenville, SC to InnoVenture,
a venture capital conference that promotes southeastern
innovations with global impact.
His address will be “The Medici Effect:
Groundbreaking Innovation at the Intersection of Disciplines
and Cultures” based on his book of the
same title, one of the top 10 business books on Amazon.com.
The Washington Post wrote
” Over the years, there has been a steady
stream of books that purport to explain how creative
thinking happened and how to foster it. But in a
readable 190 pages, Frans Johanssson does better
than most in capturing the mystery and magic of the
process.”
Clay Christenson, author of The Innovator’s Dilemma,
and Professor at Harvard Business School call the Medici
Effect:
“ one of the most insightful books about
managing innovation I have ever read. Its assertion
that breakthrough insights occur at novel intersections
is an enduring principle of creativity that should
guide innovators in every field”
Johansson himself writes of his book:
“This book is not about the Renaissance,
nor is it about the Medici family. Instead it is
about the effect they created and how we can do the
same in our own lives and organizations. It looks
at the process behind this explosion of new ideas
and the special challenges we face while executing
them.”
His African-American and Cherokee mother, originally
from North Carolina, and Swedish father raised Frans
in Sweden. He earned his BS in environmental studies
at Brown University and an MBA at Harvard Business School.
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Dr.
Sally Rhine Feather
"The Reach of the Mind"
by Dr. Sally Rhine Feather in Wall Auditorium
Friday, February 17, 2006, 3:00 pm - 4:15 pm
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Dr. Sally Rhine Feather, a clinical psychologist,
worked as a researcher at the Duke Lab/FRNM until 1969.
Following an internship at UNC in clinical psychology,
Dr. Feather worked over thirty years as a clinical psychologist
in mental health and psychiatric clinics and in private
practice in North Carolina and New Jersey. She served on
the Board of the Parapsychology Association for ten terms
and remains an active member. Since 1995 she has been actively
involved at the The Rhine Research Center (RRC), serving
for five years as Chairman of the RRC Board, and now as
Director of Development and the Business Manager of the
Journal of Parapsychology. She is the co-author (with Michael
Schmicker) of The Gift: ESP, the Extraordinary Experiences
of Ordinary People (St. Martins Press, 2005). Dr. Feather
received a BA in biology from The College of Wooster and
a Ph.D. from Duke University in experimental psychology.
She completed her postdoctoral fellowship in clinical psychology
at the University of North Carolina.
Her famous parents, Drs. J.B. and Louisa Rhine are considered
the founders of scientific parapsychology, a field now
recognized by the AAAS. C Norman Shealy, MD., Ph.D., author
and founding president of the American Holistic Medical
Association, states they “created a foundation that
has proven that there is an extraordinary psychological
ability that is crucial for survival and for innovation.
The work of PSI and the use of intuition and synchronicity
are increasingly seen by science as the foundation for
creativity.”
(from http://www.rhine.org/gift.htm):
Can some people really see the future, read other peoples’ minds,
or psychically observe distant events unfold, as they
happen, even when they take place hundreds or even thousands
of miles away from them? Yes, they can, declares clinical
psychologist Dr. Sally Rhine Feather , daughter of the
late, renowned ESP researcher Dr. J.B. Rhine, whose pioneering
laboratory experiments at Duke University brought scientific
credibility to paranormal research.
Featuring over 200 amazing, real-life ESP stories taken
from the Rhine Research Center’s ever-growing database
of over 14,000 ESP reports – the world’s
largest collection of ESP experiences – Dr. Feather
and her co-author Michael Schmicker share with the reader
extraordinary psychic experiences sent in by people all
over America – from avoiding injuries and accidents
to predicting the death of family members; from finding
stolen cars to catching cheating spouses; from winning
the lottery to foreseeing the bombing of Pearl Harbor
in 1941 and the 9-11 terrorist attack on America in 2001.
A 2001 national Gallup Poll found that half of all Americans
believe ESP is real, and 65 million Americans have personally
experienced ESP. The authors explain how scientists established
the reality of ESP through laboratory experiments, the
three forms of ESP – precognition, clairvoyance
and telepathy – and how ESP operates in real life
through dreams, intuitions and visual/auditory manifestations.
In addition to sharing its research findings through
a scholarly journal and presentations at professional
meetings and conferences, the Rhine Center http://www.rhine.org/
seeks to engage the public in a variety of ways and on
a variety of fronts.
- Weekly Research Meetings bring academic speakers
from both inside and outside the Rhine Center
- Monthly Book Discussion Groups led by the Rhine
Center's librarian, Peggy Feddersen.
- The Alex Tanous
Research Library and Archives includes
over 4,000 books and volumes of bound journals,
one of the world's largest scholarly collections devoted to
psychic phenomena.
- The Journal of Parapsychology
is the Rhine Center's biannual journal and the official
organ of the Parapsychological
Association.
Plenary Speaker, Dr Sally Rhine Feather, is co-sponsored
by
Coastal Carolina University's Office of Student Activities
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Dan
O'Reilly
"Jazz After Hours with Dan O'Reilly"
Friday, February 17, 2006, 2:30 pm - 3:20 pm
Wall Auditorium
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Dan O'Reilly has been a
member of the performing arts faculty at CCU since
the fall of 2001. His teaching commitments include American
Popular
Music, The CCU Saxophone Ensemble, The Jazz After Hours
Big Band, the POP 101
Contemporary Music Ensemble, and the Saxophone Studio.
He is also involved with
the Catholic Campus Ministry and Newman Club here on campus.
Mr.
O'Reilly continues to maintain a professional performing
schedule on the Grand Strand,
appearing with his own jazz combo u"n"i, with
various blues bands, and backing
up artists such as Lou Rawls, the Temptations, and the
Four Tops. He and his
beautiful wife Lisa make their home in Socastee.
Jazz After Hours - The CCU Big Band--is a full sized
big band, performing
the works of Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Miles Davis,
Dizzy Gillespie, and many other
essential American jazz composers. The group is comprised
of CCU students,
and is joined from time to time by local jazz professionals
who are happy to give
of their time and talent to nurture the next generation
of players. This
ensemble meets once a week, at night (hence the name,
Jazz After Hours). Students
are encouraged to learn to improvise, and to perform
in the various
styles that jazz music has produced in the last century.
The group is proud to
be supported by the CCU community who continue to fill
the seats
whenever the band performs. Director Dan O'Reilly hopes
that the success of this
ensemble will open the doors to more jazz education courses
here at Coastal
Carolina University.
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