Re: [OSList] Happy Birthday Harrison!

[Agustin Jimenez via OSList]

Happy Birthday Harrison!! Enjoy this new around-the-sun-tour!!

Thanks for all,

Agustín 

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El 3/12/2018, a la(s) 9:26 a. m., Jo McLaughlin via OSList 
 escribió:

> Best wishes for your 84th year and all the years beyond!
> Jo
> 
> On Sun, 12/2/18, christine koehler via OSList 
>  wrote:
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> Subject: Re: [OSList] Happy Birthday Harrison!
> To: "OSLIST" 
> Cc: "christine koehler" 
> Date: Sunday, December 2, 2018, 1:20 PM
> 
> Happy
> Birthday Harrison 
> 
> Thank
> you for being here with us
> Christine 
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> Le 2 déc. 2018 à 17:54, Christine
> Whitney Sanchez via OSList 
> a écrit :
> Love to
> you, dear Harrison.
> 
> Namaste,
> 
> ChristineChristine Whitney
> Sanchez
> Phoenix, AZ, USA
> • +1.480.882.8281
> 
> 
> On Dec 2,
> 2018, at 9:50 AM, Jeff Aitken via OSList 
> wrote:
> A toast to
> you, Harrison! 
> JeffSan Francisco
> On Sun, Dec 2, 2018, 7:05 AM Bhavesh Patel via
> OSList  wrote:
> Happy Days young man!
> 
> On Sun, 2 Dec 2018 at 02:35, Suzanne Daigle via
> OSList 
> wrote:
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> Dear
> Harrison,
> Posted this pic on Open Space
> Facebook!  Sharing it here.  With love and life gratitude,
> wishing you a magical "be prepared to be
> surprised" day!
> With love and many hugs,Suzanne
>  Birthday Harrison.png>
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> Suzanne Daigle
> Open Space Facilitator
> NuFocus Strategic
> Group
> 
> FL 941-359-8877
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Re: [OSList] Thinking...

[Agustin Jimenez via OSList]

Suzanne, 

Thanks a lot for this wonderful story!!

Agustín

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El 9/12/2017, a la(s) 4:33 a. m., Thomas Perret via OSList 
 escribió:

> Awesome story, thanks Suzanne
> 
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> 
> All is possible together
> 
>> On 8 Dec 2017, at 19.58, Suzanne Daigle via OSList 
>>  wrote:
>> 
>> Thank you Christie for your  beautiful note and for leading us to Ashley's 
>> interview. No matter how familiar is the message or how often I hear it, I 
>> feel its comfort, its resonant invitation and all the hope, joy, grief and 
>> "awe" that goes with it. 
>> 
>> In your note you said:
>> 
>> "Caring creates time, meaningful time."​ I have been thinking & talking with 
>> colleagues a lot lately about the "care" part of healthcare & healthcare 
>> education, and about how time and attention​ are necessary elements of 
>> care...and truly, allowing for "meaningful time" can be powerful elemental 
>> medicine.
>> 
>> As I read this, I was triggered by the "caring that can happen at work" - a 
>> caring connected to a spirit of community where  passion and responsibility 
>> are at play. I experienced both yesterday. 
>> 
>> It was related to my work with UPA (United Packaging Association) - a  new 
>> packaging networking association that got ignited from an Open Space 
>> gathering in 2016. UPA members and guests celebrated the holiday season last 
>> evening and visited a wonderful flavoring company called Monin, with its 
>> family roots in Bourges, France. Their self-organizing ways of managing the 
>> company hooked my heart and I had great difficulty containing my enthusiasm 
>> and holding back my questions, wishing to remember and absorb every miracle 
>> moment of my time with them. There were so many stories, so many little 
>> things that they are doing - everyone totally invested in the work of the 
>> business, passionate, having a place and having a voice. It is with such 
>> pride that they shared their progress, their mistakes, their set-backs and 
>> their leaps forward with clients, doing more for them and with them than 
>> anyone could imagine. 
>> 
>> On the walls throughout their facility were large black and white, framed 
>> professional photographs of every single employee, each capturing the 
>> essence and spirit of the person  - sometimes a smile, sometimes a special 
>> spark in the eye or a whimsical expression. 
>> 
>> Their dedication, the excellence of what they do, their commitment, their 
>> humility and the global place they have earned as leaders in the marketplace 
>> attest to their culture, success and future prospects.  
>> 
>> Little wonder that they say working for Monin is to be part of a family. The 
>> spirit of family extends beyond to everyone connected to them including 
>> community and us at UPA last evening. 
>> 
>> I could not even begin to describe all those things that I noticed as we 
>> toured - people on the job in their every day life doing what they do, 
>> taking charge and in charge, with a pride of competency and collegiality 
>> that spoke of decision-making by those closest to the work at hand. The 
>> important measures of the business were there on the wall for everyone to 
>> see, written not by management but again by people closest to the work. I 
>> could go on and on about those items of continuous improvement, their 
>> breakthroughs, technical expertise, commitment to excellence and the many 
>> ideas from people across the company that adorned the bulletin boards in 
>> celebration of the results from each of those initiatives. There were no 
>> labels attached to what they do: lean, six sigma, self-management or indeed 
>> open space. They were just doing the work. 
>> 
>> One story in particular struck me deeply. Partnering with a placement 
>> agency, they hired a young man who was autistic on a trial basis to do a 
>> task that was somewhat repetitive and crucially important to the overall 
>> manufacturing process of this particular product. Andrew, now a regular 
>> employee, excelled at this task!! Others had struggled with the routine of 
>> it, trying to avoid being assigned there. Today not only has the entire 
>> organization learned deeply about right fit, for right job (applies to 
>> everyone not just Andrew) but now teammates regularly come by to work side 
>> by side with him on other projects to keep him company.  Outside the door of 
>> the small office where Andrew works on the manufacturing floor is a plaque 
>> with his name on it and the words "Pump Assembly". No one else in the 
>> company has a plaque with their name on it. 
>> 
>> As joyous and exuberant as I felt being there, I could not help but also 
>> feel sadness, and even grief, knowing that others who were also on the tour, 
>> as touched as they were by what they saw, could not imagine a culture like 
>> Monin's within their own companies. Just as someone cannot imagine the 
>>