At 06:43 PM 4/2/00 -0400, you wrote: >My Assumption: CEO's get paid to Open Space in their organizations to >capitilizes on the above to meet their organizations goals. An OS >facilitator is in essence doing the CEO's function in this regard. > >If this is a correct assumption then the Fair Market Value of OS might >be....1 day of CEO's pay X no. days OS facilitation + 2 days (prep >recovery).... example 3 day OS event = 5 day CEO's daily pay. Just imagine >what one would be paid for if Opening Space in Microsoft! ******************************* This is great -- but for me the math would be harder then the Open Space. But there was a time when I did an Open Space for a $300 million company -- small but quite well known. The CFO was furious. We basically closed the company for two whole days. He figured it cost him a Million a day. Anyhow, but the end of the first day, in addition to a whole mess of other stuff, the folks had designed a new product (including manufacturing and marketing plans) and re-designed their inventory system. The CFO figured the first was worth $24 million a year, and the second saved $4 million. Total addition to the bottom line in 8 hours $28 Million. Not to shabby, considering the folks also had fun. Anyhow, I caught him early on the second day. He was smiling -- broadly. I figured I would catch him when he was in a good mood to tell him that next time it was on percentage. He didn't smile.
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