I teach political science, ( American Government and public
administration, Ph.D.), History, Modern European and American;
Social Sciences ( Sociology ), education ( Ed.M. HGSE Harvard )
and Economic Development. I also do Internet 101, a introduction
to the web tools, chat, ftp, http, forum, BBS, etc. I have a
workbook on Applied Social Relations - communications, feeling,
style, goals, synergy, systems ( general and applied analysis ),
the Covey, Maslow, human potential, Deming's Total Quality
Management, group dynamics, as they relate to remote systems and
on-line programs.
When do I teach - GMT 14:00 to 18:00 other hours by
arrangement. I live in East Central Florida GMT -4
I use netmeeting - IP number posted on index page; also Cool
talk, IRC channel /join #synergy, AltraVista ForumForum floor 503
and 504, FTP open pages, E-mail, forms, and what ever we need
Baby Born Under Bombs:
I was born in Barcelona during a complex way war in the
Generaladad de Catatonia involved the anarchist, the republicans,
the communist, and the nationalist (Fascist). ( See Orwell's
Homage to Catatonia). I am the only native born America anarchist
since the anarchist were the official government of a short lived
independent Catatonia. My father, Irving Peter Pflaum, was the
UPI reporter in Madrid during a three year battle, mother,
Melanie Lowenthal, was with my older brother and her parents in
Barcelona. In a month or so we took the last train from Spain to
France and stayed in a small town near the border - Collioure
that remains today a charming artist colony and fishing village.
Irv returned to Chicago to become the foreign editor of the
Times (then the Sun-Times). I went to the University of Chicago
in the last days of the
Roberts Hutchin's
program.I receive a form of a classical education, organized
on Aristotle principles.
There was a common assumption that the
education of leaders involved the transmission of Western
Civilization, culture, attitudes, this required the values suited
to a Roman Gentleman, a British Officer, or an American
Scholar.
I did further studies at the University of London, LSE. I
taught school and community college in St. Albans and Turin
Italy. I started teaching college at the Inter-American
University in San German, Puerto Rico. I went to summer schools
at Harvard and completed a Ed. M. in Education and Economic
Development. During the integration of the south I was a graduate
student at Florida State and a consultant on integration of
schools. I spent a year with the Legislature working on issues of
Higher Education. My
Thesis was on Geographic Data Base systems
and their application to drawing school zones. (Ph.D.)
I then have worked in a variety of Colleges and Universities
working with students from people just out of High School through
Graduate School. I learned a lot about process doing industrial
training for private business and public agencies. I have run
hundred of
The organizations that succeeds today and tomorrow will have
turned on groups.
MASLOW ( Further
Reaches of Human Behavior ) tells how Ruth Benedict was
interested in cultures that promoted cooperation and ;team work ,
vs. those that were aggressive, cranky, and mean. Team work
creates a level of
The excitement and energy
of groups is know to good leaders, teachers, coaches, and
managers, everywhere and in all times. Organizations that can
promote the formation and support of small, stable, focused
groups.
These groups are and will be winners. This is the secret
of Z organization, quality circles