Welcome to the New self-managementinstitute.org - Morning Star Self-Management Institute

In late 2013 our team met to review our progress as an
organization, and to identify unfulfilled needs and opportunities for us to
better achieve our Mission.  We realized, as we reviewed our strategic
plan and identified focuses for 2014, that we’ve done a poor job of curating
content to serve our Community of Practice.  Membership in our Community
has grown dramatically in the last few years, and our interactions with many
members confirmed that there’s a large contingent of people around the World
who share our vision, but are searching for answers.

Much to our chagrin we realized that, while we don’t have all of
the answers, over the years we’ve collected a body of our writings, videos
and a large library of books which, together, represent a comprehensive body
of media focused on self-management in organizations.  But we’ve not
effectively presented it to our membership in an organized fashion.

We also realized that there’s a group of writers, business leaders
and thinkers whose wisdom and insight has proven beneficial to us, but that
we have not effectively leveraged that insight by disseminating it to you,
our Community of Practice members.

So we placed a specific focus on re-shaping our website to be more
than a site about the Institute.  Visitors to our redesigned site will
now be accessing a streamlined and focused collection of content, organized
intuitively to allow visitors to quickly identify the “path” that they’re
looking to traverse (or the nature of the question they’re trying to answer
or the problem they’re trying to resolve), and to move down that path,
accessing content relevant specifically to the visitor’s general challenge.
 

Some of the content that is now easily accessible on the new
site:

• Blog posts by
  our staff, as well as by select outside contributors who we’ve grown to trust
  and admire (a perfect example is the recent
  post by Frederic Laloux, the author of Reinventing
  Organizations).
• Video content
  from past Institute Symposia—including
  content from preeminent writers, thinkers and practitioners like Gary
  Hamel, Morning Star founder Chris
  Rufer and others)
• Videos of authors we admire speaking about their work—and how it
  can help us build better organizations (like this
  video of Paul J. Zak)
• Reviews of the books in Our Library—the stuff we’ve read over the
  years that has influenced our thinking and practices.
• Internal publications (like white papers—check out Doug
  Kirkpatrick’s paper, “What is Self-Management?” or Paul
  Green, Jr. & Chris Rufer’s paper, “Systems & Tools of
  Self-Management”).
• Answers to some of the most Frequently
  Asked Questions.
• Information about upcoming events that we’re hosting (like the
  upcoming Applied
  Self-Management seminar)

Of equal importance is the broadening source of this content.
 We’ve begun leveraging the most innovative, insightful and radical
management thinkers and practitioners that we’ve encountered as sources of
material.  We approach this cautiously; we recognize that the value this
new content portal brings is its focus and relevance, so we invite new
contributors to share their wisdom and knowledge with you through our site
only after ensuring that they represent our Mission, values and Vision.
 

So we invite you to take a moment now to visit the new site.
 Explore a bit, and if you like what you find (or if you find nothing of
interest) drop
us a note and tell us what you think.  And come back often (or
if you use an RSS reader, add our homepage to your list of news feeds); we
want to make sure you don’t miss a thing.