- Fernando Flores
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name = Fernando Flores
image_size = 170px
caption = Fernando Flores, 2004
birth_date = Birth date and age|1943|1|9|mf=y
birth_place =Talca ,Chile flagicon|Chile
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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
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website =http://www.fernandoflores.cl
footnotes =Carlos Fernando Flores Labra (born
January 9 ,1943 ) is aChile an engineer, philosopher, entrepreneur and politician. He is a former cabinet minister of presidentSalvador Allende and is currently senator for the Arica and Parinacota and Tarapacá regions.Biography
Flores was born in
Talca , Chile. He became finance minister in the government of Chilean presidentSalvador Allende and then spent three years as a political prisoner (fromSeptember 11 ,1973 to 1976) after the military coup of GeneralAugusto Pinochet . Forced into exile, after negotiations on his behalf byAmnesty International , he moved with his family toPalo Alto , California, and worked as a researcher in the Computer Science department atStanford University . He subsequently obtained his PhD atUC Berkeley under the guidance ofHubert Dreyfus ,Stuart Dreyfus ,John Searle andAnn Markussen . There he developed his work on philosophy,coaching andworkflow technology, influenced byHeidegger ,Maturana ,John Austin and others. His thesis was titled "Management and Communication in the Office of the Future."Projects and companies founded
Flores has founded several companies including "Hermenet" (for which he used a $6 million investment from
Werner Erhard ); "Logonet", an education company; "Business Design Associates", a management consulting company (later acquired by [http://www.vision.com/ VISION Consulting] ); and [http://www.actiontech.com Action Technologies] , a software company, where he introduced new distinctions inworkflow analysis,groupware , software design and business process analysis that he developed in association withTerry Winograd . His newest project is an Internet-based movement called " [http://www.atinachile.cl Atina Chile] ".Involvement,
est /Werner Erhard :"Main articles:
Werner Erhard ,Erhard Seminars Training ,Werner Erhard and Associates "In the 1980s
Werner Erhard worked with Flores [Fernando Flores Webpage, last updated June 19, 2006, [http://www.fernandoflores.cl/] ] on aspects oflanguage , setting up a body of work which makes a distinction between, on the one hand 'speaking that describesbeing ' 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, Flores [http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?st=CA&last=FLORES&first=FERNANDO contributed] $1,000 to
Werner Erhard 's brotherNathan Rosenberg 's campaign for congress [Campaign Contribution Search, Fernando Flores, donations toWerner Erhard 's brotherNathan Rosenberg 's campaign for congress [http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?st=CA&last=FLORES&first=FERNANDO] ] inCalifornia 's 40th district. The contribution was given under the organization "F and F Investments".Politics
Flores was
Finance Minister of presidentSalvador Allende in the early 1970s, before he was imprisoned, subjected to prolonged, systematic psychological torture and later driven to exile by the military regime ofAugusto Pinochet .In 2001 Flores was elected senator for the
Tarapacá Region , as a member of the center-leftParty for Democracy (PPD), a constituent party of the governing coalition "Concertación ".In late 2004 Flores was unsuccessful in becoming the PPD's candidate for
President of Chile and he later supported the candidacy ofMichelle Bachelet .In 2006 Flores ran for the presidency of the PPD party, but lost to
Sergio Bitar . Later that year he began to move away from the party following disagreements with the current party leadership, following a corruption scandal ("see:"2006–2007 Chilean corruption scandal .) OnJanuary 8 2007 he inaugurated a new political project called "Chile Primero " ("Chile Comes First"). The next day he submitted his resignation to the PPD. Currently, he is a pro-"Concertación" independent senator, and has announced he will not seek reelection in 2009.Publications
* "Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life", (author)
* "Understanding Computers and Cognition : A New Foundation for Design" (withTerry Winograd ), (co-author)
* "Disclosing New Worlds: Entrepreneurship, Democratic Action, and the Cultivation of Solidarity", (co-author, with Charles Espinosa and Hubert Dreyfus)
* "Beyond Calculation: The Next Fifty Years", a special issue of theCommunications of the ACM journal, (contributor)References
External links
* [http://www.fernandoflores.cl/blog/ Personal blog]
*http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/21/flores.html Fast Company article on Flores — "The Power of Words"]
* [http://cqmextra.cqm.org/cqmjournal.nsf/reprints/rp07900 Center for Quality of Management Journal article — "Using the Methods of Fernando Flores"]
* [http://www.newsmeat.com/campaign_contributions_to_politicians/donor_list.php?candidate_id=H6CA40184&li=F Fernando Flores] , Fernando Flores, contributes toWerner Erhard 's brotherNathan Rosenberg 's congressional campaign, October 28, 1987,Federal Election Commission data, 9/11/2006.
* [http://www.cybersyn.cl/]ee also
*
Project Cybersyn
*Werner Erhard
*Werner Erhard and Associates
*est /Erhard Seminars Training
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