Dr. William Smith
Bill is an innovative thinker and practitioner in the field of leadership, organization and social systems development. He has created and implemented new approaches to organization for multinational corporations, for governments, the World Bank and the United Nations in many parts of the world. In his first job, working for British Airways, he made Rome the best performing of all the airline's stations in less than six months. Not knowing how this came about he moved to the United States in search of insights into high performance in organizations. While pursuing his PhD at the Wharton Graduate School of Business, The World Bank requested him to apply his thinking to the design of the organization and management of large-scale complex projects. Since then, he has been perfecting the implementation of these concepts through application in all major cultures and at every level of the organizational hierarchy, from village development to the design of national and global systems for development. The origin, development and implications of his new theory and practice of organization are recounted in The Creative Power: Transforming Ourselves, Our Organizations and Our World. Bill is now Chair of System Innovation, Engagement and Leadership at ISSS. He is adding a new level of Practice to his AIC model of Purpose and Power relationships. This new research, conducted with Gary Smith and colleagues at ISSS, sees practice as an ordered sequence of purpose/ power relationships.