What a treat to have a CEO immersed in Open Space and an Agile Scrum
guy to boot! I agree with Harrison; it will lead to amazing things
for your company if you jump in the ring with everyone. So inspired.
Wish we had met in Paris. I was there then. Keep us posted!
Suzanne
P.S. Gerardo translated Harrison's user guide in Italian. I have my
very own copy which Gerardo signed dedicating it to my dad who read
the book from cover to cover years ago in Italian. He was a medical
doctor. He loved it!
On Mar 21, 2014 4:24 PM, "Harrison Owen" <hho...@verizon.net
<mailto:hho...@verizon.net>> wrote:
Stefano -- If Milano can talk to Roma, good things might happen!
I was going to add in my previous note that while it is certainly
possible for the CEO to facilitate an Open Space as you propose,
that would not be my first choice for several reasons. First --
no matter what you say you will STILL be the Boss (or whatever)
-- which makes it harder to believe that it really is Open Space,
and that you are not setting the agenda. As you probably know by
now, it is virtually impossible to "control" an Open Space.
Certainly you can shut it down, but you and everybody else will
be out of control, simply because everybody is "in control." You
know that, but your people don't, at least for their first Open
Space. So I would not put unneeded barriers in the way, even if
they will be cast aside. The second reason that doing it yourself
is problematical is that as facilitator, you really need to keep
your hands out of things (present and invisible, so to speak).
But then everybody loses, assuming that you have some value to
add. Which I am sure you do.
So do yourself and everybody else a favor. Invite my good friend
Gerardo (Milano) to do the honors. And if he can't, there are
many other good folks, all speaking Italian. If he/they can take
care of the space, you can have the marvelous fun of playing in
it with all your comrades. At least that is what I would do.
Harrison
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Hege, tks for your words.
I'm very lucky because I'm part of a team (agile coaches team)
who shared strong values and maybe our passion was capable to
'infect' our management.
We hope OS will be a first step toward a new way to live
collaboration in our company.
We're going to do a one day Open Space.
And to answer to a previous Suzanne question: we're located in Rome.
Stefano
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Hege Steinsland
<steinslandh...@gmail.com <mailto:steinslandh...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Stefano, I wish you all the best and congratulate you with your
courage and the trust your company shows in you and the method! A
great opportunity! I looke forward to listen to your experience.
Are you doing a one ore two days Open space?
All the best from
Hege
Norway.
21. mars 2014 kl. 13:16 skrev Stefano Lucantoni
<stefano.lucant...@gmail.com <mailto:stefano.lucant...@gmail.com>>:
Thanks a lot Suzanne.
I'm reading Harrison's guide again and again and I admit that the
more I read it the more the stress drops down because it really
seems to me that the Open Space is self sufficient or anyway
needs a very small help.
Thanks again for your support.
Ciao
Stefano
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 1:58 AM, Suzanne Daigle
<sdaig...@gmail.com <mailto:sdaig...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Stefano...bravo! Love the theme, love that you will have 100
people and most especially that you have invited your
organization into Open Space. Besides telling you to enjoy the
experience, I would refer you to Harrison's guide. After 5 years
I still go back to it to do the basic preparations and to also
sink into my invisible role opening and holding the space. Where
are you located?
Thank you for sharing and making us part of your first
experience. Remember you can do no wrong. It will happen with you
and in spite of you.
Keep us posted.
Suzanne
On Mar 20, 2014 6:49 PM, "Stefano Lucantoni"
<stefano.lucant...@gmail.com
<mailto:stefano.lucant...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Dear all,
I'm new to this OS world. After my first, and unique, OS
experience in Paris during last September (The Global Scrum
Gathering) I came back home with the idea to adopt this kind
of meeting in my company too.
On next March 31st my company's first Open Space meeting will
take place and I'm going to be the facilitator. wow!
We'll be around 100 people and the theme is "how could we
make our company a better place to work?"
If any of you have a suggestion to share with me, something
that you would have been happy to receive before your first
time as an OS facilitator, I think it would be really a gift
for me.
thanks all
Stefano
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