Dear Karen
My book is entitled THE STRATEGY LED BUSINESS: step-by-step strategic
planning for small and medium sized companies (McGraw-Hill Business
Paperback, 1996, 224 pp), ISBN 0-07-709 285-6. Don't be put off with the
business label, as the model is virtually the same for public sector and
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Dear Nancie Biver
Some suggestions:
1. Go to the nearest OST event and participate (participation is worth ten
thousand books).
2. Find an experienced facilitator to lead this one and shadow and learn
yourself.
3. Form a planning committee, explain the mechanics how OST works, help
them choose
Very nicely done website Kerry
Joe
Nancie,
Once upon a time I sold the concept of hiring Harrison Owen to facilitate the
annual conference of my own professional association in OS. The Board of
Directors (made up of Investment Bankers, Lawyers, CPA's, & Management
Consultants) who made the decision found it helpful to be able to
At 10:39 AM 2/10/00 -0600, you wrote:
>When we mention open space or even just describe the event, we're
>finding a lot of resistence. People want to know the plan, the agenda,
>what's going to happen. They want an explanation.
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First off, don't try and explain it
Thank you Birgitt (congratulations on your new-found status, BTW) for your
wisdom and starting the ball rolling (as ever) from which others have built.
And thanks to everyone else who has responded so promptly. Doc is quite right -
this is about developing a self organising culture of open commu
I am in the process of organizing my first open space event. It's at
Tulane University and the dialogue is focused on working together to
provide resources to youth (it's the America's Promise initiative, if
anyone is familiar with that).
When we mention open space or even just describe the event
Dear Friends,
I am interested to know how OS organise scheduling of
the issue arrived on board and a lot of particpants
have already nominated their name during os. If
several issues have come up and they are interrelated
and each issue has a bit different nominations - who
decides it or is it sel
At 11:24 AM 2/10/00 +, you wrote:
>
> One of my difficulties is that at this stage I am not in face to face contact
> with a client (several hundred miles away) who requires a single sheet
> synopsis of how OS can meet his needs. I therefore feel I have to present
> this as a rational process
