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"Where there is no vision, there is no hope."   George Washington Carver

Continuous, deep, and disruptive change is no longer the exception but the norm. Having a vision that transcends this fray is more important yet more challenging than ever. Such a vision 1) begins with Sight - seeing what is really happening, 2) deepens into Insight - understanding how and why this is happening, and 3) crystallizes into Foresight - anticipating future developments, possibilities, and paths forward. Kampas Research empowers individuals and organizations to develop superior Sight, Insight, and Foresight with visually elegant, deeply penetrating frameworks and methods applied in a step-by-step manner. Delivery is available via books (see below) as well as training, coaching, and consulting (see offerings to left).

Hope you got a chance to see us at OD Network Conference 2008 (October, Austin) presenting: "A Visual Language and Framework for Organization Design and Diagnosis."
Outstanding performers Toyota, IKEA, Southwest, FedEx, and the New England Patriots (football team) are in vastly different businesses but have one thing in common -- their  system is the star. The winning formula in today's most successful businesses is no longer a few star individuals or products that produce flashes of success, but a star organizational system. To create a star organization, leaders must begin to see and think like architects, holistically designing and integrating their organization's many components into a high-fit system tailored to its target market. Essential to this challenging task are a whole system design process, principles, framework, and toolset. Beautifully illustrated in full-color, Mastering Organizational Architecture (2007), provides these design resources along with numerous examples and case studies. To look inside, click on the cover graphic. To order, click here.
 
Who should read it?  Senior and mid-level managers, strategic planners, HR and OD managers and consultants, management consultants, MBA faculty and students.

 
"Your book Mastering Organizational Architecture is wonderful, and has served as the core reference for development of SHA's new organizational architecture. It is transforming."  CHARLES HEAD - President & Principal, Sanborn, Head & Associates (Geotechnical & Geoenvironmental Engineering).
 

   
Want to unleash the half of our human brain superbly wired for visual processing but often underutilized in business planning and decision-making?  Envisioning Business (2007), can help. It takes an elegant and rigorous approach, providing a broad array of frameworks, methods, guidance, and examples that span the areas of mapping markets, orchestrating innovation, gauging performance, and architecting the organization. Detailed examples are provided for the healthcare, digital media/electronics, and automotive industries. To look inside, click on the cover graphic. To order, click here
 
Who should read it?  Senior and mid-level managers, marketing and R&D managers, strategic planners, management consultants, MBA faculty and students.

 
"I worked with Paul on the book DEC Is Dead, Long Live DEC. His graphical models are very powerful and clear, and his argument for taking strategy to a total system level is highly relevant to today's managers and leaders."  EDGAR H. SCHEIN - Professor Emeritus MIT Sloan School.
 

 
New!!  Are you seeking a grounding and empowering life vision to help you clarify purpose and path, love and work in today's real-time sound-byte YouTube world? Through the use of 7 penetrating and awareness-raising visual "frames," Vision for Life! (2008) gives readers a means to rise above this day-to-day fray to a higher plane. Here openness and perspective expand, bringing principles for right living and possibilities for the way forward into view. Richly illustrated in full color, this genre-bending, eye-opening book is more about learning from pictures than paragraphs. To look inside, click on the cover graphic. To order, click here. Also available at Willow Books & Cafe in Acton (MA) and the Concord Bookshop in historic Concord Center (MA). For group seminars, email us to find out more.
 
Who should read it?  Individuals seeking personal vision and growth as well as those seeking to help others achieve the same, including executive and life coaches, therapists, and support/learning groups. It can also benefit those seeking to improve work-life balance (less stress, more joy), to find or enhance romantic relationships (understand the 11 kinds of love), and to increase parenting savvy in a media-saturated world.

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