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KAI Foundation Five Podcast, Episode 4: Welcome to the Land of Getting Things Done - The Creative Adaptors
No full textWelcome to Part 4 of the KAI Foundation Five Podcast Series, our five part introduction to building better teams and great leaders with the Kirton Adaption Innovation Inventory.
KAI is the world’s foremost measure for problem solving style. It’s used widely to create cohesive and productive teams and effective leaders. It’s been in use for about 40 years and is supported by a large body of academic research from around the world.
In these five podcasts we want to provide you with an understanding of why KAI is so effective, so powerful and indeed life changing for many teams and team leaders. As Kirton himself said, “The better I know myself, the more I can help others.” Today’s fourth part is entitled “Welcome to the Land of Getting Things Done – The Creative Adaptors” and in it we’re going to be looking specifically at the role and effectiveness of the leaders and team members on the more adaptive end of the KAI inventory, and how vital – but often unrecognised – they are in achieving the goals of teams and organisations.Published versionTrue (Extension publication?
Material interests: land of my dreams by Nausheen Khan and screening and conversation with Kai Syng Tan
No full textMaterial Interests in a programme convened by Professor of Visual Politics Louise Siddons, Head of Department of Art, Media and Technology, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton.
In the final of the 2024 run, we welcomed award-winning filmmaker Nausheen Khan.
Nausheen screened her devastating documentary 'Land of My Dreams' which foregrounds the voices of the protesters of India’s Citizenship Amendment Act, as well as the filmmaker’s own, as a Muslim woman.
The screening (74 minutes in Hindi with English subtitles) was followed by a conversation with Associate Professor in Arts and Cultural Leadership Dr Kai Syng Tan. Kai met Nausheen at the prestigious Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 2023 in Japan, where Kai was a juror, and where Nausheen won a Citizen’s Prize.
In the UK, Nausheen has been touring the universities of Sheffield, Sussex, UCL, and KCL with fantastic responses. This session was valuable to learn more about counter-hegemonic strategies in the face of Islamophobia, threats to human rights and democracy, and misogyny not just in the Global South but beyond, and from the perspective of a courageous young feminist filmmaker.
Nausheen Khan is an independent filmmaker based in India, working on gender perspectives amid conflict and political unrest in contemporary times. Land of My Dreams is her first self-financed feature-length documentary film. It won Best Long Documentary at the International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala, in 2023, and the Citizens' Prize at the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, in 2023
With around 20 participants, 'Have a Speed-Date With Kai – Let’s Re-Imagine Our (Collective) Future Together': Part of exhibition 'Ordinary Things'
No full textAs part of the exhibition Ordinary Things curated by Professor of visual Politics Louise Siddons, I held speed dates. Here, participants sit with the artist to re-imagine our (collective) future, and/or strategise artful ways to fight colonialism. Our dates were speedy. Around 20 people dated me between 02-25 November 2023. The dates took place:2nd November Thursday: Private View evening3rd November Friday: 12:00-13:009th November Thursday 15:00-16:0013th November Monday 12:00-13:00 22nd November Wednesday 15:00 – 16:00. This work continues from my Speed-Date with artist Bob and Roberta Smith (How to Thrive in 2050, 2021), neuro-queering proponent Nick Walker (2023) and more. This work casts a sideway glance at Marina Abramovic’s iconic and very serious The Artist Is Present, as well as, more generally, her particular brand of durational performance, currently showing the Royal Academy (and during the duration of our exhibition too). Speed-dates are perfect for the time-poor and the novelty-chasing/risk-desiring person, like one Kai Syng Tan. Kai became a die-hard, hard-core optimist and serial (speed-)dater because she is allergic to boredom. Kai is not just pro-active but hyper-active in seeking to brain-storm and create fire-works with others about better ways forward, because she refuses to take things lying down. This (anti-)durational performance is a new iteration of a body of creative research that Kai has been working on since 2016, outputs of which include a speed-date with visionary artist Bob and Roberta Smith (in How to Thrive in 2050!, BBC Culture in Quarantine 2021) (below, left), and an exhibition-cum-performance on a ‘Neuro-futuristic 2050’ at Attenborough Arts Centre (below, right). Our deadline is 2050, which is less than one generation away. We’re running out of time, so, hurry
Free thinking - running
No full textWe've been running for two million years give or take. Shahidha Bari and Laurence Scott explore contemporary running as solitary inspiration and communal activity with the Geographer and 1999 Scottish Hill Running Champion, Hayden Lorimer, the artists Kai Syng Tan and Angus Farquhar, and the literary scholar and bare-foot artiste, Vybarr Cregan-Reid. Conversation ranges from feeling empowered on city streets to teaming up with the wind to the horrid history of the treadmill and explore whether Running deserves better representation in the arts. Guests: Vybarr Cregan-Reid - author of Footnotes How Running Makes Us Human Angus Farquhar, Creative Director of NVA Public Art, author of a blog 'The Grim Runner' Hayden Lorimer Running Geographer Kai Syng Tan, Artist and curator of a biennial festival Run Run Run Producer: Jacqueline Smith
Wong Kai Imports
No full textCustomers check out at the market at Wong Kai Imports. Wong Kai Imports was established by the Wong family in 1983. Originally located in a small market located on 15th Street East, they moved to a much larger distribution center and market location off of State Road 70 in 1994
Kai Schmidt
No full textKai is an experienced HR Business Partner, who set up an HR Department including all processes and tools in an international environment for a second time.
He was born and raised right in the middle of Germany, in Muehlhausen. He started his career as an Officer cadet in the German Army ca. 20 years ago. He obtained his Master Degree in “Educational Science, Psychology and People Development” at the University of the German Armed Forces in Munich where he served as “Recruiting and Consulting Specialist” at the Central HR-office of the German Armed Forces in Cologne for 4 years.
In 2009, Kai joint EADS (today Airbus) as HR Manager Operations, responsible for recruiting, career development, training, legal issues and organizational changes for departments in the Defence Business.
After two years Kai became Head of Human Resources & Site Manager at SIGNALIS (German – French Airbus subsidiary for Vessel Tracking and Coastal Surveillance Systems) in Munich, Bremen and Paris. He built up the HR department from scratch and was responsible for all transnational HR topics. For this challenge he hired a graduated HR apprentice, after he made several good experiences with the German apprenticeship program.
After 3 years Kai was asked to serve as Executive Assistant to Head of Human Resources within Airbus Defence and Space in Ottobrunn, south of Munich. At this time Airbus was merging 3 Divisions (Defence, Space and Airbus Military).
Due to these previous engagements and experiences Kai was appointed HR Director Airbus OneWeb Satellites in May 2016. He started HR from scratch again. Today he is managing all key HR processes in France and US (Strategic Resource Planning – Recruitment – Induction / Talent Management and Succession Planning / Competence Management – People Development – Training / Payroll / Communication / Social Policies and Industrial Relations / Compensation and Benefits, etc.). He ensures that business operations are supported by HR as a fully integrated Business Partner and contributes with his team to company competitiveness by making OneWeb Satellites a global employer of choice as well as an innovative and engaging place to work.
The support for the German/Swiss apprenticeship program - called the Space Coast Consortium Apprenticeship & Workforce Initiative for the Space Coast aerospace, aviation, aircraft and defense companies – is a matter of heart for Kai. And for sure those programs are extremely important to our company to help increase awareness of manufacturing to local students who wish to learn more about future career choices in manufacturing and to gain practical hands-on skills at our company. It fits also perfectly into OneWeb’s mission: “Connecting every unconnected school in the world by 2022”.https://commons.erau.edu/space-congress-bios-2018/1025/thumbnail.jp
Have a speed-date with Kai – let’s re-imagine our (collective) future together: installation at group exhibition Ordinary Things
No full textAlso: https://kaisyngtan.com/artful/winchester-gallery/NEW WORK: There were three components to 'Have a Speed-Date With Kai – Let’s Re-Imagine Our (Collective) Future Together'. They were: 1) participatory installation 2) performance and 3) podcast (plus film). My installation invited people to share their wishes for the year 2050. Should people feel stuck, they could have a speed-date with me to re-imagine our (collective) future, and/or strategise artful ways to fight colonialism. I also had a speed-date with Louise in the form of a podcast, recorded in September 2023.CONTEXTS: Ordinary Things was curated by Louise Siddons, Professor of Visual Politics and Head of the Department of Art and Media Technology.More than a century ago, Marcel Duchamp celebrated ordinary objects by putting them on pedestals in galleries. His playful engagement with the ‘museum effect’ — the extraordinary attention we’re expected to pay any object placed in an art gallery — suggested that art is an act of heightened awareness. In Ordinary Things, twenty-six artists at WSA transform everyday objects into complex meditations on what it means to be in the world. Participating artists: Danny Aldred, Alexandra (Sasha) Anikina, Daniel Ashton, Andrew Brook, J. R. Carpenter, Stephen Cornford, Ian Dawson, Megen de Bruin-Molé, Francis Gene-Rowe, Dave Gibbons, Seth Giddings, John Gillett, Jacob Hall, Daniel Hobson, Gordon Hon, Christina Mamakos, Clio Padovani, Kwame Phillips, Adam Procter, Andrew Reaney, Sara Roberts, Steven Sanderson, Amy Scott-Pillow, Julian Stadon, Nick Stewart, Kai Syng TanEXHIBITION: The exhibition took place in 02-25 November 2023, Winchester Gallery, UK
Supplementary materials for Kai Quek and Alastair Iain Johnston, "Can China Back Down? Crisis De-escalation in the Shadow of Popular Opposition," International Security, Vol. 42, No. 3 (Winter 2017/18), pp. 7–36, doi:10.1162/ISEC_a_00303.
No full textSupplementary online materials with replication dataset and code for Kai Quek and Alastair Iain Johnston, "Can China Back Down? Crisis De-escalation in the Shadow of Popular Opposition," International Security, Vol. 42, No. 3 (Winter 2017/18), pp. 7–36, doi:10.1162/ISEC_a_00303
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