What People Say
MICHAEL C. JENSEN Jesse
Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, Harvard
University
Werner and I are writing what I think is a terribly profound
piece on integrity.... Integrity is an incredibly important factor
of production, at least as important as knowledge and technology.
Werner is the most rigorous guy I've ever worked with. We can spend
an hour working on a four-or five-sentence paragraph." "Werner
is absolutely a genius, an amazing man, a remarkable man." That
collaboration, along with several other projects of mutual interest,
eventually coalesced as the Barbados Group.
READ THE FULL ARTICLE "Beyond
Coordination and Control Is... Transformation", published by
the independent internet weekly economicprincipals.com,
by David Warsh, April 8, 2007
PETER BLOCK Author and Consultant
"What’s caught me lately is the notion that the future
is caused by imagination. An imagination of the life causes a leading
of the life, rather than the leading of the life causes my way of
thinking. And I just know it’s powerful, I never quite know how to
get at it. I like the language of possibility. ‘Cause it’s hard. It’s
the possibility I’m living into...A lot of this stuff I got from Werner
Erhard’s stuff with … EST, you probably recognize it... But
the idea that if I hold a possibility, or a future, of the way I want
the world to be, then I bring that into the room with me every time
I show up. I don’t have to work on it… it works on me. Now that to
me is beautiful."
READ
THE FULL KEYNOTE ADDRESS "Servant-Leadership: Creating
an Alternative Future", A Keynote Address by Peter Block, 2005
International Servant-Leadership Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana
DAVE LOGAN Associate Dean
and Executive Director of Executive Development, and Associate Professor
of Clinical, at USC’s Marshall School of Business
"Werner’s thinking – I don’t know any nice way of saying
it – is just out there in the world. You can’t have a Master’s
Degree in organizational development or human resources without picking
up some of it. And it’s usually not credited back to him.
His stuff is just out there."
From a film interview with Robyn Symon, "Transformation
– The Life and Legacy of Werner Erhard", a documentary
produced by Symon Productions Inc.,2007
BISHOP OTIS CHARLES Retired
Dean of the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Bishop Charles also wanted "to make the 'technology of
transformation' available to people in the Church … "Bishop Charles,
who did est in 1977, considers Werner Erhard and Ignatius of Loyola
"the two individuals most influential in shaping my manner of
grappling with work and life in the last 15 years," because although
"the two are separated by about 400 years, each had a gift of
being able to put together a way of creating a space in which your
own life and gifts were able to be clearly manifested."
READ THE FULL ARTICLE
"Erhard's Life After Est", By Dan
Wakefield, Common Boundary, March/April 1994
LYNNE TWIST Global activist,
Author of The Soul of Money, Founder and President of the Soul of Money Institute
"There are thousands of consulting firms that come out
of Werner’s work. There are hundreds of not-for-profits that come
out of The Hunger Project alone. And hundreds that come out of the
est Training and the Landmark Forum. It’s staggering the difference
that that man has made in this world."
From a film interview with Robyn Symon, "Transformation
– The Life and Legacy of Werner Erhard", a documentary
produced by Symon Productions Inc.,2007
RONALD HEIFETZ Founder, Center for Public Leadership, Harvard University
During this same early period, we looked at the Erhard Seminar Training. That was an important experience because we saw two hundred people in a room over two weekends go through a powerful curriculum and have a learning experience that seemed to change many of their lives.
From Leadership Can Be Taught: A Bold Approach for a Complex World, by Sharon Daloz Parks, published 2005 by Harvard Business School Press, copyright 2005 Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation, pages 157-158
At all times and under all circumstances, we have the power to
transform the quality of our lives.
Werner Erhard
Fortune magazine's 40th Anniversary issue (May 15, 1995), in examining the major contributions to management thinking, recognized Werner Erhard’s creation of est as the major innovation of the 1970s in shaping modern management thinking toward empowering people.
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