Peggy
The question of "connective tissue" for sustaining interpersonal,
business or community in a way which fosters, nurtures and sustains self
organization, especially in OD/OT etc consulting practices, is
important to me because I believe I/we need to be able to model the
attributes for our cl
Peg Holman asked
"So, the question that raised for me is what sustains the "connective
tissue"
in a self-organizing business community?"
I think my answer must be "the same stuff that sustains any human community
- sharing, support, caring". Like in any other human relationship there has
to be tim
Peg,
I think that the group I am part of (
http://www.aspenfamilybusiness.com/";>
http://www.aspenfamilybusiness.com ) as a self organizing system. The
group is 10 years old, there are 5 of us in the group, there is no heirarchy,
we all live in different parts of the country, and we only meet fa
I had lunch with a friend the other day who is part of a small consulting
firm that is working on operating as a self-organizing business. (I believe
one person in the organization has experience with open space.) While she
indicated that it has opened up some new avenues in their practice as peo
Wow! The more I think about the implications of this, the more hope I have
for changing the world. Think about this: we each touch around 30-500
people every time we do an Open Space. If only a portion of those are
transformed by the experience, they still carry it back and influence those
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