Fernando Flores
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| Born: | January 9, 1943 Talca, Chile Image:Flag of Chile (bordered).svg |
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| Occupation: | Researcher, Stanford University Philosophy professor, UC Berkeley Curriculum Development, Erhard Seminars Training Founder, Hermenet Founder, Logonet Founder, Business Design Associates Founder, Action Technologies former Cabinet Minister, Chile Senator, Chile |
Carlos Fernando Flores Labra (born January 9, 1943) is a philosopher, former Chilean cabinet minister, current senator <ref>Republic of Chile, Senate Webpage, List of Senators, http://appsvr2.senado.cl/prontus_senado/antialone.html?page=http://appsvr2.senado.cl/mss/listaparlamentarios.php</ref> of Chile and a businessman.
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[edit] Biography
Flores was born in Talca. He worked for the government of Chilean president Salvador Allende and then spent three years as a political prisoner of General Augusto Pinochet (from September 11, 1973 to 1976). Release into exile after negotiations with Amnesty International, he established his family in Palo Alto and started to work as a researcher of the Computer Science departament at Stanford University. He subsequently obtained his PhD at UC Berkeley under the guidance of Hubert Dreyfus, Stuart Dreyfus, John Searle and Ann Markussen. There he developed his work on philosophy, coaching and workflow technology, influenced by Heidegger, Maturana, John Austin and others. His thesis was titled Management and Communication in the Office of the Future.
[edit] Projects, Companies Founded
Flores has founded several companies including "Hermenet" (for which he used a 6 million dollar investment from Werner Erhard), "Logonet", an educational company; "Business Design Associates", a management consulting company (later acquired by VISION Consulting); and Action Technologies, a software company, where he introduced new distinctions in workflow analysis, groupware, software design and business process analysis that he developed in association with Terry Winograd.
Flores' new project is an Internet-based movement called Atina Chile.
[edit] Involvement, est/Werner Erhard
Main Article(s): Werner Erhard, Erhard Seminars Training, Werner Erhard and Associates
In the 1980s Werner Erhard worked with Fernando Flores<ref>Fernando Flores Webpage, last updated June 19, 2006, http://www.fernandoflores.cl/</ref> on aspects of language, setting up a body of work which makes a distinction between, on the one hand 'speaking that describes being' with, on the other hand, 'speaking that brings forth being'. The work that Dr. Flores did with Erhard was incorporated into The Forum.
On October 28, 1987, Fernando Flores contributed $1,000 to Werner Erhard's brother Nathan Rosenberg's campaign for congress<ref>Campaign Contribution Search, Fernando Flores, donations to Werner Erhard's brother Nathan Rosenberg's campaign for congress http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?st=CA&last=FLORES&first=FERNANDO</ref> in California's 40th district. The contribution was given under the organization "F and F Investments".
[edit] Publications
- Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life, (author)
- Understanding Computers and Cognition : A New Foundation for Design (with Terry Winograd), (co-author)
- Disclosing New Worlds: Entrepreneurship, Democratic Action, and the Cultivation of Solidarity, (author)
- Beyond Calculation: The Next Fifty Years, a special issue of the Communications of the ACM journal, (contributor)
[edit] References
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[edit] External links
- Personal blog
- Fast Company article on Flores — "The Power of Words"
- Center for Quality of Management Journal article — "Using the Methods of Fernando Flores"
- Fernando Flores, Fernando Flores, contributes to Werner Erhard's brother Nathan Rosenberg's congressional campaign, October 28, 1987, Federal Election Commission data, 9/11/2006.
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[edit] See also
| Preceded by: None | Curriculum Development Erhard Seminars Training October 1971 – February 1981 | Succeeded by: Brian Regnier, Course Designer, Werner Erhard and Associates, Landmark Education |
