Lisa, We don't need your ideas...what we need is welfare....if you really want to help us.
Funda from a so called developing country. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lisa Kimball" <l...@groupjazz.com> To: <osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 3:40 PM Subject: Re: boston conference > Thank you, Masud, for the references to the work of Mohammad Younus and > Akhtar Hameed Khan. Are there some articles or other sources that would > give more information about their work? > > Too often I think we have the idea that we need to send ideas from the west > (north) to help others and we forget that we could learn from ideas coming > FROM developing countries. > > * lisa > > -----Original Message----- > From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu]On Behalf Of Masud > Sheikh > Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 7:48 AM > To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu > Subject: Re: [OSLIST] boston conference > > > Dear Lisa, > This is wonderful. I was particularly struck by the comment: > "It use was pioneered in developing countries and has led to sustainable > improvements in seemingly intractable organizational and social issues." > > Two examples immediately came to mind: Mohammad Younus in Bangladesh on > micro-credit. A great man (Akhtar Hameed Khan) now deceased, who pioneered > some wonderful examples of self-help & community building in Pakistan, and > earlier in then "East Pakistan" (now Bangladesh). > > While I will be unable to come to this conference, I shall probably come to > the OS on OS in Halifax, on the east coast of my new homeland - Canada. I > have no idea how OS on OS runs, and have hardly any real experience of OS. > But to know more about OS, I can think of nothing better than meeting with > people who seem to live and breathe OS. > > Are you planning to come to Halifax? > > Take care, all of you > Masud > > In times of change, the learners will inherit the earth while the learned > will find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no > longer exists - Eric Hoffer > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Lisa Kimball [mailto:l...@groupjazz.com] > >Sent: April 11, 2005 11:15 AM > >Subject: boston conference > > > >Hi! I thought you might be interested in a very intriguing conference > >coming up in Boston in June . This 'positive deviance' approach shares a > >lot of theoretical roots with appreciative inquiry and complexity > frameworks and I think is very aligned with some of our thinking in open > space too! > > > >From the Inside Out: Uncovering Solutions to Intractable Problems through > >Positive Deviance > >Tufts University, Boston, MA > >June 28-29, 2005 > >http://www.plexusinstitute.org > > > >Positive Deviance, an approach developed over the past fourteen years, > >demonstrates that isolated examples of success can be tapped to benefit an > >entire community or organization. Accomplishing this requires a radical > >departure from "benchmarking" and "best practice" strategies of change. > > > >Plexus Institute and The Positive Deviance Initiative at Tufts University > >invite you to explore Positive Deviance with Jerry and Monique Sternin, > >leading Positive Deviance (PD) authorities and pioneers, and Arvind > >Singhal, a scholar-practitioner on social change, and join with others who > are searching for solutions to some of the critical social and > organizational challenges facing us today. > > > >The PD approach builds on successful but "deviant" (different) practices > >that are identified from within a community or organization. It is based > >on the observation that in every group there are certain individuals whose > >uncommon, but demonstrably successful practices or behaviors enable them > >to find better solutions than their neighbors or colleagues who have > access to exactly the same resources. It use was pioneered in developing > countries and has led to sustainable improvements in seemingly intractable > >organizational and social issues. > > > >The Harvard Business Review features PD in its May 1, 2005 edition. The > >approach has also begun to penetrate the corporate consciousness. It was > >employed at Goldman Sachs and was instrumental in transforming the > >behavior and practice of its nationwide force of investment advisors. It > has been used to tackle gnarly technical challenges at Hewlett Packard, and > >hospitals have begun to use PD to address quality improvement challenges. > And a PD workshop was just held at the January 2005 World Economic Forum in > Davos. PD is unlike traditional expert-driven models for social and > organizational change. Like the human immune system, individuals and > institutions reject what is perceived as "foreign matter". When "experts" > provide "best practice" strategies for organizational changes, which are > externally identified, and "not invented from within", they face rejection. > The Positive Deviance approach provides an antidote to the immune system > defense mechanism; the solution and the host share the same "DNA" and the > change comes from within. Those in a community or organization are helped to > discover the positive deviants in their midst, understand the strategies > they employ and then create among themselves a process for enrolling the > larger community in the desired change. Change is from inside out. This > workshop will provide an overview of how and where PD has been successfully > used to address problems requiring social or behavioral change. All > participants will learn the 4 steps of the PD process design to nurture a > PD-based change initiative on an issue of importance to them. > > > >I'd be happy to share more info if you're interested! > > > >* lisa > > >Lisa kimball > >Group Jazz, Suite 440 > >5335 Wisconsin Ave NW > >Washington, DC 20015 USA > >P: +1 202.686.4848 > >F: +1 202.966.3772 > >E: l...@groupjazz.com > >www.groupjazz.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 > > * > * > ========================================================== > 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 > > * > * > ========================================================== > 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 * * ========================================================== 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