Gyuri--
I believe in the truth of your hypothesis, but I think the personal type of
the individual is much more important in this than the job they hold. It is
true that producers are drawn to manufacturing, but some manufacturing
managers are creative risk takers. And some people in marketing o
I think we need to make a distinction between warm up activities (a.k.a.
icebreakers) and other stuff that may precede the Open Space Forum (as we
now call it over here in Brighton, UK) proper.
Facilitators do warm-ups because they think that people are cold. Ive found
that when I assume that peo
hello all,
wondering if there are any stories of businesses using open space in
cases of business integration following mergers and acquisitions.
i don't need long stories, just facts will do. if you send any stories
or blurbs to me directly at mailto:mher...@globalchicago.net i will post
the lo
Let me have an other angle to see this issue.
I think it would worth to collect our experience on, who will buy the OS?
Here is my contribution. There is a classification of managers by Ichak
Adizes, who talks about 4 types of managers. Of course this 4 types are not
appearing clearly, but in a mi
Dear Brian et al,
I think we fall into a trap if we refer to the warm-up as a discrete entity
that one might find in a book or learn from another facilitator. I suggest
that you do use warm-up consistently as part of the OS process. As you said
"Seems to work for me and the people I work with." Yo
Even ants operate in OS!
Swarm Intelligence: A Whole New Way to Think About Business
Harvard Business Review, May 2001, p. 107. Reprint R0105G
This article discusses how companies are using the strategies of ants to
improve their operations. Yes, ants; little black insects. It turns out that
th
Dear All
I used to use warm-ups - about twenty years ago, I think.
Now, I find that people get to know one another by working together in
groups, and the magic is that they are then working on matters that
matter (for which there is some passion) as well as getting to know
others who have passion o
Hi Judi,
Just going over some of the postings again - the smudging sounds wonderful
and if I put myself there, it seems like a deeply seated form of tacitly
sharing stories. I'm sad at times that western city life helps us to lose
this quiet "story-sharing" that is contained in ritual, and relieve
Hi Viv and All,
One of the best things about OST is that the warm-up is inherent on the
process. I remember thinking this last year when I did the training sessions
with Birgit in Brisbane. And the warm-up starts before the Space is opened.
It begins when I receive the notice of training or the in
Dear all:
Perhaps the initial "check in" (invitation to look around at other
participants, breathe, relax, uniqueness of situation, etc.) which many of us
adopted from Owen/Bolton(then)/Peterson serves a similar purpose to "warm ups":
to bring everyone to the same "place" and awareness of thems
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