Unsuscribe

1998-12-21 Thread Peter Gumpinger
How can I unsuscribe OS-list? Please helb me!!

Re: Unsuscribe

1998-12-21 Thread Murli Nagasundaram
I apologize for posting these instructions to the list as a whole (using up bandwidth), but here are the NEW IMPROVED instructions (the old ones won't work because of the switch to the new server last spring). It would be a good idea for all list members to save this in case you wish to QUIETLY le

Re: Sales strategy

1998-12-21 Thread BJ Peters
I have been thoroughly intrigued by and interested in the dialogue on this topic. I am a relative newcomer to this list and to Open Space. I will be using Open Space in conjunction with Appreciative Inquiry (AI) in two client projects in the coming months, and while I always have some trepidation

Re: Unsuscribe

1998-12-21 Thread owen
At 10:22 PM 12/21/1998 +0100, you wrote: >How can I unsuscribe OS-list? Please helb me!! *** To use the Law of Two Feet (fingers -- whatever... send the following electronic message: SIGNOFF OSLIST (Nothing more, just that; no subject, no signat

Re: Day 2 Bounce and some elementary matters. -Reply

1998-12-21 Thread Michael Cox
>>> "." 12/21 2:14 pm >>> Please could you share it on the "open line" - I have not been able to locate the Harvard Negotiation Project on the net and both my son and I are interested in following it up.<< You can find information on the Seven Principals at: http://genesis.acu.edu/ministryhealth

Re: Day 2 Bounce and some elementary matters.

1998-12-21 Thread .
Please could you share it on the "open line" - I have not been able to locate the Harvard Negotiation Project on the net and both my son and I are interested in following it up. Many thanks Lin Grist At 01:20 PM 12/20/1998 -0500, Esther Ewing wrote: >David: > >You wrote: >"We use the 7 Elements

Re: Day 2 bounce and other elementary matters

1998-12-21 Thread owen
At 11:30 AM 12/21/1998 -0400, you wrote: Friends, My thanks to Owen, Larry and others who responded to my request for advise on conducting my first Open Space event--and I think the first to be held in Nova Scotia. Within one hour, the 35 participants, which ranged from environmentalists to

Re: Sales strategy

1998-12-21 Thread owen
> >>>Harrison, just told us why he never sold any open space. But at the same >>>time he is a heck of a salesman. >>> >>>He told us the secret, which makes him hot -- the customers wants an >>>outcome and is usually unimpressed by the process. But that is only half of >>>it -- the customer wa

Re: Day 2 bounce and other elementary matters

1998-12-21 Thread Birgitt Bolton
Hi Joe, congratulations on your first Open Space event. Sounds to me like you are going to have many more. And the state of the environment in Nova Scotia will never be the same :-) And you are right about caring, respect, and trust being critical for Open Space. These cannot be faked. They must b

Re: Day 2 bounce and other elementary matters

1998-12-21 Thread Joe Szostak
Friends, My thanks to Owen, Larry and others who responded to my request for advise on conducting my first Open Space event--and I think the first to be held in Nova Scotia. Within one hour, the 35 participants, which ranged from environmentalists to native leaders to government scientists,

fear of success

1998-12-21 Thread Birgitt Bolton
Open space is not something to be sold or not sold. It is a means (open space as a verb) and a container (open space as a noun) through which organizations can attend to their transformation. I have learned in life that no one or no organization can ever be convinced that transformation is critical

Re: Sales strategy

1998-12-21 Thread Denis Hitchens
>Consider this an experiment. In making my reply, I have also left all the >prior elements of the conversation. It makes for a rather long message, but >at least a newcomer will have some idea what is being talked about. See how >it works. H. > >*

Re: Sales strategy

1998-12-21 Thread Larry Peterson
When an organization needs to questions its basic assumptions, or key strategic assumptions and appears not to have the internal capability to do so, then I suggest a guided process--like future search or a modification of it before opening space. This is particularly true if it needs to do some gr

Fw: Y2K gets a small taste of Open Space

1998-12-21 Thread Peg Holman
This story came to the Open Space Institute (US) e-mail address. Thought you might enjoy it. Peg Holman -Original Message- From: Tom Atlee To: grouplearn...@lists.best.com ; eryn...@aol.com ; fnues...@aol.com Cc: h...@igc.org ; bbaumruc...@value.net ; bdfutu...@aol.com Date: Friday, De

Re: More on Conflict Resolution

1998-12-21 Thread Peg Holman
Mahoney's e-mail address is wtma...@aol.com . He would be a wonderful person to talk to about OS and labor/management settings. Peg Holman -Original Message- From: owen To: osl...@listserv.idbsu.edu Date: Friday, December 18, 1998 6:48 AM Subject: Re: More on Conflict Resolution >At