Cliff Hurst, Ph.D.
Associate Faculty - School of Leadership Studies | Fielding Graduate University
Santa Barbara, CA, UNITED STATES
OD Practitioner, Professor, and Scholar Specializing in a Value Theory Known as Formal Axiology.
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Biography
As a scholar, I seek to be a generalist in an era of specialization. This means I eschew disciplinary boundaries. Our theories of organizations ought to be informed by the values and ethics best understood through the study of philosophy. Leadership ought to be informed by an understanding of human motivations and well-being brought to us by humanistic psychology. Economics is a valuable conceptual framework… up to a point. What harms our society is when economics becomes the predominant lens through which businesses operate. Likewise, accounting is an important discipline, but we must understand what it does not account for as well as what it does. Logistics and supply chain management, without the understanding provided by systems thinking, will inevitably overlook the resilience needed to prevent delays and shortages due to unforeseen events. That’s why I am drawn to the practice and study of OD. OD is inter-disciplinary by nature. It’s why I was drawn to Fielding, first as a student and now as an adjunct professor.
Areas of Expertise (5)
Organizational Development
Leadership Development
Entrepreneurship
Economics
OD
Accomplishments (1)
Outstanding Service Award, Bill and Vieve Gore School of Business (professional)
2017
Education (3)
Fielding Graduate University: Ph.D., Human and Organizational Systems 2012
University of Virginia: B.A., Foreign Affairs 1975
Fielding Graduate University: M.A., Human and Organizational Systems 2009
Affiliations (5)
- OD Network : Member, 2020-present
- Association of Humanistic Psychology : Member, 2019 - present
- Academy of Management : Member, 2012 - present
- United States Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship : Member, 2011 - present
- RS Hartman Institute of Formal and Applied Axiology : Member, 2002 - present
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Media Appearances (5)
Podcast Episode #78: People Are Not Rational Actors
Wake Up Eager Workforce Podcast - Priceless Professional online
2021-01-01
Topic 1: Welcome Dr. Clifford Hurst; Talk About Robert S. Hartman’s Work, How You Came Across It and Why You Are Committed to Sharing it With Others
Podcast Episode #58 Change How You Think, Act and Work: Cliff Hurst, PhD, Westminster College Talks About Robert S. Hartman's Work
Wake Up Eager Workforce Podcast - Priceless Professional online
2019-01-01
Topic 1: Welcome Dr. Clifford Hurst; Talk About Robert S. Hartman’s Work, How You Came Across It and Why You Are Committed to Sharing it With Others
Dr. Clifford Hurst on Finding Your Superpower, The Life of Entrepreneurs and The Importance of Looking Inside
Barefoot: A Podcast from Boris A. Angelov online
2019-10-01
In this episode, Dr. Clifford Hurst, a professor teaching entrepreneurship and a yogi, shares some of his experiences in Silicon Valley studying the life of entrepreneurs and how he got to be a professor. He gives advice on choosing a career path, dealing with stress and the importance of looking inside.
Episode 55 - Cliff Hurst
P3 People Podcast online
2016-06-08
Join P3 Utah's executive director, Steve Klass as he sits down with Cliff Hurst, Assistant Professor of Management at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah. Cliff speaks on the entrepreneur incubator program at Westminster, as well as sustainability and ethical business. For this and many more great podcasts, visit p3utah.org.
25: Cliff Hurst: I Needed to Grasp the Essence
Fast Leader Podcast online
2015-07-15
When Dr. Cliff Hurst was a Consultant and Executive Coach he often was met with a degree of defensiveness and people would put up a mask and a shield to avoid getting real. Cliff found himself spending a lot of time and effort trying to break through their defenses until he changed his methods. Once that happened he was able to have more genuine conversations than he was ever able to have before. And this is when Cliff started a new journey. Listen to Cliff’s story and learn how you might find a new way to get over the hump.
Articles (3)
An axiological measure of entrepreneurial cognition
International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research
2018 The purpose of this paper is to expand the recent lines of inquiry into entrepreneurial cognition by focusing on the structure of values as an important aspect of cognition. Value theory, or axiology, posits that the capacity to value and to make value judgments is a distinctly human function – one that is a higher order process than is pure cognition alone.
Discerning entrepreneurial judgment as reflected in entrepreneurs' responses to feedback
Fielding Graduate University
2012 An entrepreneur's judgment is perhaps the most important asset that a start-up company has. It is scrutinized by investors; it is relied upon by team members; it is tested in the marketplace by early customers. As important as entrepreneurial judgment is, it is a difficult characteristic for others to discern and to evaluate. The purpose of this research project is to bring greater insight and clarity to the process of evaluating the judgment capacities of entrepreneurs during this critical stage of the founding of their companies. This project applies the theory of formal axiology as a lens for studying entrepreneurial judgment and decision-making by analyzing how entrepreneurs receive and respond to feedback.
The non-mathematical logic of a science of values
Journal of Formal Axiology: Theory and Practice
2011 This paper joins the ongoing debate that has taken place in the pages of this Journal around the type of mathematics that inheres in the logic of formal axiology. The author argues that the validity of formal axiology as a scientific theory rests on its axiomatic foundation. This foundation is independent of the explanatory value that various forms of mathematics may bring to our better understanding of axiological theory. This essay explores first the analogous nature of the relationship between math and the logic of value and second, it discusses the axiomatic foundation of the logic of formal axiology. The author proposes that three axioms, not just one, are needed in order to establish the science of values known as formal axiology.
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