Thanks, Harrison, for renaming the thread and sending this post when I have 10 minutes free.
This allows me to say that I agree with you (except peraphs in your mantra, because I still think that there are some organizations - like the Catholic Church and most armies, some companies and even countries - that have a lot of sucess in acting as closed systems - even if there are also open processes hapenning in them) and disagreee with Tom (or whoever he was agreeing with). If someone goes through the Archives will find a post from me some years ago where, based on an article from the HBR on Open Source, I tried to show that it is very similar to Open Space, because both are based on self organization. I also recall some posts (from Michael H?) about X-programming and its relations with Open Space Regards Artur -------- Harrison Owen <hho...@comcast.net> wrote: Tom Wrote: "I agree, comparisons between open space, open source and agile methods have limited value." Probably true, but I think that the value might lie in understanding that operative power underlying all three "methods" is self-organization. (...) To quote my now favorite mantra -- "There is no such thing as a non-self organizing system." --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! * * ========================================================== 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