At IshCon Spring 2005, Dr. Howard Ditkoff and Mark S. Meritt gave a presentation on the ideas behind their consulting company, Emergent Associates, LLC. The talk focused on how methodologies and fields like Appreciative Inquiry, complexity science and personality typing…
Category: Talks
IshCon Spring 2004 Talks
At IshCon Spring 2004, Mark S. Meritt led a discussion on the most misunderstood and unaccepted ideas in the work of Daniel Quinn, and he gave a speech elaborating on Quinn’s recommendation that people pursue what they are best at…
The Game of Community
Below are the notes to a speech given to the Rotary Club of Red Hook, NY. Speech Notes Red Hook — from NYC almost 3 years ago — bought home — more for your $ — but also to set…
World Bank 2000 and the Unsustainability of Economic Growth
This paper was delivered as part of a panel discussion, “The World Bank Millennium Report: A Recipe for More Inequality,” organized by Michael L. Blim, chaired by Jarrett Zigon, and given during the 99th American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San…