Barbados Group

The Barbados Group represents a "self-selected group of scholars, consultants and practitioners" [ [http://ssrnwww.ssrn.com/dev/ann624742.html "Announcing Barbados Group Abstracting Journal"] , retrieved 2008-03-05] which aims to build an ontological paradigm of performance in organizations. [http://ssrnwww.ssrn.com/dev/ann624742.html, retrieved 2008-03-05]

The group and its main publication-vehicle SSRN both have at their head Michael Jensen, Emeritus Professor at the Harvard Business School, who also has links to the Monitor Group.

Top scientistsWho|date=April 2008 in the fields of philosophy, neuroscience, complex adaptive systems (CAS), psychology and rhetoric work together on creating three new laws which the Barbados Group regards as the source of human performance.Fact|date=April 2008 Much of the evidence for these laws as validated by the sciences listed above consists of business-cases for them working for clients of the Vanto Group (formerly known as Landmark Education Business Development) and relates to the scientific resultswhich? reported about participants in Landmark Education programs. Accordingly, several of the group's members have links with Landmark Education. [ http://ssrnwww.ssrn.com/dev/ann624742.html, retrieved 2008-03-05 ]

Members include:

* Sir Christopher Ball, Patron, Talent Foundation
* Peter Block, Partner, Designed Learning Inc.
* Allan L. Cohen, Founder and Principal, Allan L. Cohen Consulting
* Joseph J. DiMaggio, Research, Design and Development Director, Landmark Education LLC
* Werner Erhard, Independent
* Bruce Gregory, Senior Science Educator, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
* Michael C. Jensen, Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, Harvard Business School; Senior Advisor., The Monitor Company; Chairman, Social Science Electronic Publishing (SSEP), Inc.
* Olga Loffredi, Vice-President of International Affairs and Managing Director, Latin America, Vanto Group Inc.
* David C. Logan, Lecturer, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business; Senior Partner, JLS Consulting
* Brad Mills, Director, CEO, Lonmin Plc
* Robert H. Rosen, Chairman, CEO, Healthy Companies International
* Harry Rosenberg, CEO, Landmark Education Enterprises Inc.
* Allan L. Scherr, Founder, ALS Consulting
* Steve Zaffron, CEO, Vanto Group Inc; Vice-President of Research, Development and Design, Landmark Education LLC [cite web
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* Michael E. Zimmerman, Director, Center for Humanities and the Arts, Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado, Boulder; Co-leader, Integral Ecology Domain, Integral Institute
* Mark A. Zupan, Dean, Simon School of Business, University of Rochester

Brian Regnier of Landmark Education co-edits [http://ssrnwww.ssrn.com/dev/ann624742.html, retrieved 2008-03-05] the group's publications, the [http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/JELJOUR_Results.cfm?form_name=journalbrowse&journal_id=624742 Barbados Group for Development of a New Paradigm of Performance Research Paper Series] .

Compare the [http://www.vantogroup.com/ Vanto Group, a Landmark Education Company] , known as Landmark Education Business Development, or LEBD, [ [http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS271093+01-Feb-2008+PRN20080201 Landmark Education Business Development, LEBD, Changes Name to Vanto Group"] at Reuters.com, 2008-02-01. Retrieved 2008-04-01] from 1993 to 2007.

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