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Production of UVU Magazine was discontinued as of 2020. Captured by Archive-it, 2023-10-19. <details style="border: 1px solid #ccc; padding: 10px; border-radius: 5px;"> <summary style="cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold;">Transcript</summary> 8 a former student’s musings on the legacy of j. bonner ritchie at uvu and beyond VERBATIM FA L L 2 0 1 2 | V E R B AT I M LESSONS LEARNED 9 y first encounter with my lifelong teacher was humiliating. In a graduate class in 1985, Bonner Ritchie read one of “the better student papers” in class. Without identifying the author, he described the paper’s logic and both publically praised and took issue with the student author. The room of competitive business students quickly filled with envy. “Who was he talking about?” Bonner turned to me, and I had to admit before my mocking peers that I had written the paper in a rush weeks ago and then forgotten about it. My "almost" moment in the sun collapsed into humiliation. But that moment has lead to a friendship and mentorship that has lasted more than 25 years. Bonner hired me to teach at BYU and at UVU. Later, as department chair, I hired him out of his second retirement to teach at UVU. We have traveled, consulted, written and taught together. My youngest son’s middle name is Bonner. As I teach and talk in different venues, I sometimes hear Bonner’s words in my voice. These “Bonnerisms” include: “Be more than a student. Be a scholar.” Bonner quickly distinguishes between a “grade-getting student” and a “learning scholar” in his class. To Bonner, learning is a sacred activity. Students, in one definition, turn the part of the responsibility of learning over to the teacher. They ask what to read, what they should know and how they should do their assignments. Scholars learn by exploring. They define their own path and set their own direction. “make a proposal.” With the freedom to learn comes the responsibility to innovate. Many student scholars have to learn quickly that Bonner expects them to clearly define a learning path, create criteria and justify their efforts. He often floods the room with feedback, as he did on my first encounter. “things are managed. people are led.” I have heard Bonner, as an advisor to literally hundreds of business and political leaders, help them distinguish between leading people and managing things. “Things need to be managed,” he would say. “Budgets, inventory, supply chains need to be managed. But the work of leaders is with people.” “every decision is an ethical decision.” For Bonner, there is no shade where you can stand outside of the bright rays of ethical values. Choices are not easy. They often include choosing between the needs or rights of an individual and the long-term health of the organization. Bonner would often say, “Organizations do not have ethics. People do.” “organizations are corrupting.” It seems harsh, but organizations blind us. In preserving organizations, leaders often are corrupted by power and become willing to hurt individuals for the sake of order. This is a persistent force in most organizations, even churches and universities. “you see the future in children.” Bonner often tells the story of being asked to consult with the Palestinian leadership prior to the Oslo Summit in 1992. After long nights of debate between the various factions and leaders preparing to meet with the Israelis, Yasser Arafat turned to Bonner. Bonner took from his bag a pile of pictures, taken by his wife, Lois Ritchie, of Palestinian children. As the group looked at the pictures of children, the mood shifted and the future of peace became clear. The Oslo effort not only won a Nobel Peace Prize for the leaders involved, but was also the last serious effort to bring peace to that region. I have seen Bonner use those same pictures with business leaders and students to the same effect. The future is always in children, and it is always in learning. SCOTT HAMMOND IS AN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT AT UVU AND A NATIONALLY RENOWNED CONSULTANT AND SPEAKER. editor’s note: the following was written by a former student of J. Bonner ritchie's as a tribute to the retiring academic titan. in a career spanning four decades, ritchie built a reputation as one of the world’s great thinkers on matters of organizational behavior and conflict resolution. ritchie spent a combined 33 years on the faculty at the university of michigan and Byu. While at Byu, ritchie worked directly with israelis and palestinians to change long-held paradigms and effect a lasting compromise between the sparring groups. in 2001, ritchie came out of retirement to help build uvu’s Woodbury school of Business, which is now the largest business school in the utah system of higher education. many of uvu’s administrators and faculty, including the author of this article, can trace their academic history through ritchie’s teachings in leadership, conflict resolution and organizational philosophy. ritchie gave his symbolic last lecture in the spring of 2012 before retiring again — this time, for good. 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