| Fernando Flores | |
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| Born | January 9, 1943 Talca, Chile  |
| 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 |
| Website http://www.fernandoflores.cl |
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Carlos Fernando Flores Labra (born January 9, 1943) is a Chilean engineer, entrepreneur and politician. He is a former cabinet minister of president Salvador Allende and is currently senator for the Arica and Parinacota and Tarapacá regions.
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Biography
Flores was born in Talca, Chile. He became finance minister in the government of Chilean president Salvador Allende and then spent three years as a political prisoner (from September 11, 1973 to 1976) after the military coup of General Augusto Pinochet. Forced into exile, after negotiations on his behalf by Amnesty International, he moved with his family to Palo Alto, California, and worked as a researcher in the Computer Science department at Stanford University. He subsequently obtained his PhD at UC Berkeley under the guidance of Hubert Dreyfus, Stuart Dreyfus, John Searle and Ann Markussen. There he developed his work on philosophy, coaching and workflow technology, influenced by Heidegger, 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) and Action Technologies, a software company, where he introduced new distinctions in workflow analysis, groupware, software design and business process analysis that he developed in association with Terry Winograd. His newest project is an Internet-based movement called Atina Chile.
Association with Werner Erhard
- Main articles: Werner Erhard, Erhard Seminars Training, Werner Erhard and Associates
In the 1980s Werner Erhard worked with Flores[1] on aspects of language, setting up a body of work which makes a distinction between, on the one hand 'speaking that describes being' with, on the other hand, 'speaking that brings forth being'. The work that Flores did with Erhard was incorporated into The Forum.
Politics
Flores was Finance Minister of president Salvador Allende in the early 1970s, after the coup d'état he was imprisoned, subjected to prolonged, systematic psychological torture and later driven to exile by the military regime of Augusto Pinochet.[citation needed]
In 2001 Flores was elected senator for the Tarapacá Region, as a member of the center-left Party 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 of Michelle Bachelet.
In 2006 Flores ran for the presidency of the PPD party, but lost to Sergio Bitar. Later that year, with the possibility of being a presidential candidate slipped away, he began to move away from his center-left party. On January 8, 2007, he inaugurated a new political project called Chile Primero ("Chile Comes First"). The next day he submitted his resignation to the PPD. He is currently a pro-Alianza por Chile (a coalition of 2 right wing parties),he did not seek re-election in December 2009 and "Chile Primero" didn't get any deputy or senator in chilean 2009 election. Until March 2010 he remains as independent senator.
Publications
- Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life, (author)
- Understanding Computers and Cognition : A New Foundation for Design (with Terry 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 the Communications of the ACM journal, (contributor)
References
External links
- Personal blog
- Fast Company article on Flores — "The Power of Words"
- Center for Quality of Management Journal article — "Using the Methods of Fernando Flores"
See also
| Preceded by None |
Curriculum Development Erhard Seminars Training October 1971 – February 1981 |
Succeeded by Brian Regnier, Course Designer, Werner Erhard and Associates, Landmark Education |
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