Fernando Flores

Carlos Fernando Flores Labra, also known as Fernando Flores-Banuet (born January 9, 1943) is a former Chilean cabinet minister and current senator.

Bio and Education

Flores was born in Talca. He worked for the government of Chilean president Salvador Allende and then spent three years as a political prisoner of General Augusto Pinochet (from September 11, 1973 to 1976). Released after negotiations with Amnesty International, he established his family in Palo Alto and started to work as a researcher of the Computer Science departament at Stanford University where he studied a PhD 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. He obtained a PhD in Philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley. His thesis was titled Management and Communication in the Office of the Future.

Projects, Companies Founded

Flores has founded several companies including "Logonet", an educational company; "Business Design Associates", a management consulting company (later acquired by VISION Consulting); and Action Technologies, a software company, where he introduced new distinctions in workflow analysis, groupware, software design and business process analysis.

Flores' new project is an Internet-based movement called Atina Chile.

Involvement, est/Werner Erhard

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Main Article(s): Werner Erhard, Erhard Seminars Training, Werner Erhard and Associates

In the 1980s Werner Erhard worked with Fernando FloresFernando Flores Webpage, last updated June 19, 2006, http://www.fernandoflores.cl/ - philosopher, senator Republic of Chile, Senate Webpage, List of Senators, http://appsvr2.senado.cl/prontus_senado/antialone.html?page=http://appsvr2.senado.cl/mss/listaparlamentarios.php of Chile and businessman - 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'.

On October 28, 1987, Fernando Flores contributed $1,000 to Werner Erhard's brother Nathan Rosenberg's campaign for congressCampaign Contribution Search, Fernando Flores, donations to Werner Erhard's brother Nathan Rosenberg's campaign for congress http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?st=CA&last=FLORES&first=FERNANDO in California's 40th district. The contribution was given under the organization "F and F Investments".

Margolis Schemes

Werner Erhard's attorney Harry Margolis utilized Fernando Flores' resources, when he created circuitous offshore tax-shelters for Erhard's various companies:

Accordingly, Erhard called Wolfgang Somary, co- founder of Intercultural Cooperation Foundation ("ICF"), seeking to borrow money for WEA. ICF had no money to lend; however, shortly thereafter, Margolis called Somary and arranged for ICF to accept funds from a Margolis system entity and then to lend those funds to WEA. Margolis also contacted Fernando Flores, co-founder of the St. John Fundacion, who likewise agreed to act as a conduit for the loan so long as the funds were made available to him. As nonsystem entities, ICF and St. John were enlisted to participate because Erhard's outside lawyers regarded a fully disclosable source of the loan as essential to an acceptable asset acquisition plan. The Asset Protection Book, "Werner H. Erhard v. Commissioner Internal Revenue Service", February 8, 1995, http://www.assetprotectionbook.com/erhard.htm

Fernando Flores' services were needed again when Werner Erhard and Harry Margolis set up the financial structure behind The Hunger Project:

Although very little of the money collected actually goes to feed people, the Hunger Project does have the occasional token development project to show the curious. The largest such project is a five-year, $1 million development effort funded jointly with Save The Children in rural Costa Rica.

Why Costa Rica, the most prosperous country in Central America, and a place where most aid experts say hunger is virtually non-existent? One reason may be the man who put the deal together, a prominent Costa Rican government official and friend of Erhard's named Fernando Flores-Banuet. He just happens to be the same individual whose San Jose charity served as a conduit for the $15 million Zurich loan to Erhard in 1981. "The Winds of Werner", Forbes Magazine, November 18, 1985, Richard Behar and Ralph King Jr., http://www.rickross.com/reference/est/estpt13.html

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, (author)
Beyond Calculation: The Next Fifty Years, a special issue of the Communications of the ACM journal, (contributor)

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"
Fernando Flores, Fernando Flores, contributes to Werner Erhard's brother Nathan Rosenberg's congressional campaign, October 28, 1987

References

1943 births | Living people | Chilean people | Chilean politicians | Human Potential Movement

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