this in my weblog today http://www.globalchicago.net/weblog ...in case anybody's interested... been more active recently making more connectins there these days with things that sound like open space.
also, someone emailed me recently suggesting we get all the os bloggers linked together in one page of the website. if you're blogging ost-related stuff and would want to be included in such a thing, please let me know. michael --- quoted from George Nemeth's blog called SmartMeetingDesign... ...[in a recent interview] Stephen Covey (age 71, author of the 7 Habits, currently willing to come speak for you at $65.00 per appearance) ...declared management of people superfluous. One manages money, stocks, portfolios, and the like, not people. Give people purpose and a course, and then stop interfering with them. The interview ended with this quote: "In most organisations there is a lack of trust, and most employees are powerless. In this era of knowledge-workers we still use the industrial model of control, in which we treat people like objects. It is as if we are still practising bloodletting, although we know all about bacteria and how they work." When I asked the pizza-guy for pen and paper to write this quote down, he smiled at me and said ain't that a good interview or what?. Makes me think about all of the folks who've studied Covey's books, taken the courses, and heard his speeches and wonder what the world will be like when they really dig into this new message. And will the next generation of management super gurus start where Covey leaves off? Now that's what I call inviting <http://www.globalchicago.net/wiki/wiki.cgi?InvitingOrganizationEmerges>. -- Michael Herman Michael Herman Associates 300 West North Avenue #1105 Chicago IL 60610 USA (312) 280-7838 http://www.michaelherman.com - consulting & publications http://www.globalchicago.net - laboratory & playground http://www.openspaceworld.org - worldwide open space ...inviting organization into movement * * ========================================================== 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
