>From Larry Peterson: >The sponsors' intention is a critical part of focusing a space that can be powerful during and after the gathering, >particularly in ongoing organizations.
A few years ago, I was working with a planning team who wished to transform their organization (a research lab) that was losing business. I offered up Open Space and every member of the team was all for it but one -- the director of the organization. It was in the discussion of the givens that her reasoning became clear. Deep in her core, she felt is was her responsibility to set the organization's direction. That to "turn it over" to the people in the organization would be to fail in her responsibility as a leader. It was an encounter with a leadership style that I think has past it's time but nonetheless, it was her reality. The result: we did not use Open Space and her planning team, whatever their disappointment appreciated understanding their boss' perspective. Peggy * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html =========================================================== osl...@egroups.com To subscribe, 1. Visit: http://www.egroups.com/group/oslist 2. Sign up -- provide an email address, and choose a login ID and password 3. Click on "Subscribe" and follow the instructions To unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@egroups.com: 1. Visit: http://www.egroups.com/group/oslist 2. Sign in and Proceed
