Dynamite story Brendan...this is exactly the way to handle these types of situations, and god knows I've had my fair share.
Perhaps it might be pointing us towards a truism: in Open Space issues that lurk below the radar will generally get dealt with below the radar. In other words if the dead moose/dingo will always get dealt with in a manner directly related to how buried it is within the organization. No one will post a topic about it, but it will come out somewhere. The simple reason for this is that people, by definition, have been unable to deal with the issue up to now, and so they are acting perfectly consistently by not dealing with it when the agenda is set. But the quality of dialogue ain OS will always open someone to venturing the possibility that this issue needs to be raised. If it is "the real issue" then it will really happen. I like the bit of your story where the State Manager takes delight in the fact that he didn't have to raise the issue, and yet it got dealt with anyway. Thanks a lot for this... Chris ------------------------- CHRIS CORRIGAN Consultation - Facilitation Open Space Technology Weblog: http://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot Site: http://www.chriscorrigan.com * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
