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Theme file : negotiation

File includes book, "Getting to yes : negotiating agreement without giving in," by Robert Fisher and William Ury.

Theme file : Roundtables

File consists of documents on various roundtables with which Simpson was involved. These included the Roundtables on the Future of the Alberta Economy; the file includes background papers on each roundtable and a 169-page summary report, "What Albertans are saying about our economic future." Other roundtables documented in the file are those with the London Investment in Education Council (LIEC); the Commonwealth roundtable on international trade strategies for developing countries of the 1990s; a roundtable on competitiveness and training in Alberta; one on the food and agriculture industry in Alberta; the Banff Program for International Communications in Japan; and the Triple i's roundtable process with AVAC Financial Services.

Calgary speech preparatory records and past speeches

File includes the text of addresses made by Simpson: "Learning into the 21st century" for the London Investment in Education Council (LIEC); and "Breakthrough Innovation" at the Miles Canada leadership intervention.

Triple i : speeches and publications

File includes Simpson's speech for the 5th annual mayor's luncheon on business and the arts in Edmonton; notes on the Banff Centre's involvement in nurturing a co-operative relationship between business and the arts; a booklet on the Fifth Corporate Communications Seminar of the Institute for International Business Communication (IIBC); a draft discussion paper on the learning organization; a speech from April 1992 on managing change and innovation in global economy, presented to PCL construction company in Edmonton; and a short overview of recent initiatives of the Banff Centre for Management in the area of environmental innovation.

Cross-cultural education lecture notes and other material

Series consists of records pertaining to Simpson's work in cross-cultural education from the 1970s to the early 1990s, predominantly at the University of Western Ontario's Faculty of Education and the Centre for International Business Studies. The records include lecture notes, articles and readings, speeches, visual materials such as overhead transparencies, course syllabi, reports, teaching materials such as case studies and exercises, correspondence, clippings and student assignments. The subjects documented include teaching students of different cultures, First Nations thought systems and education, education in the developing world, and inter-cultural issues in international management. A number of subject files contain resources on ethnicity, I.Q., social class, compensatory education and language and their effect on learning and success. There are also a number of files inherited by Simpson, created by another professor at the UWO business school, Joseph J. DeStefano. Courses Simpson taught at the business school included "The culturally different child" and "Problems in cross-cultural management." He taught the latter course at UWO in the spring of 1989 and then in Germany at the Koblenz School of Business in the fall of 1989. The series also includes files from workshops Simpson ran in 1980 for CBC North managers following his report on "The use of radio and television for education purposes in the Canadian North -- what can be learned from the experiences of the Third World?"

Alberta roundtables and Towards 2000 Together : Red Deer - originals

File contains papers, presentation slides, a participant list and various executive summaries collected for the Red Deer roundtable on "creating competitive advantage through a knowledge-based economy." File also includes the proceedings and several company profiles from a 1990 national roundtable on labour-management cooperation.

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