A very short comment in another 10 minutes, Harrison. I think we are seeing reality from two different points of view (it it is the same reality...). If I understand well, you are too much concerned with bosses that think they are in charge. I don't think that those "in charge" control organizations.
I am thinking more of something similar to the "invisible hand" - rules, regulations, assumptions taken for granted, etc that condition you, myself, and all the other humans. We don't act like quarks and quasars, and the same rules don't necesseraly apply.. I insist that reading Argyris (in Action Science) is very conveniente. He shows how, in organizations, a Model 1 of behaviour is always present, and that it closes the space as it closes communication. The merite of Open Space IMHO is that it reduces or supresses Model 1 and enhances Model 2. But that would need a very big explanation that I have not the time now to give. But, don't worry - some day YOU will see the light ;-) Warm regards Artur Harrison Owen <hho...@comcast.net> wrote: Artur Wrote: This allows me to say that I agree with you (except perhaps 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 success in acting as closed systems - even if there are also open processes happening in them. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. * * ========================================================== 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
