Conference on healthy organizations, paradox R us...

2002-09-11 Thread Glory Ressler
Hold on, all you potential gear givers! I took another look and saw OS on the second day's agenda! A more detailed description can be found in the pdf associated file (download able from the site). It's planned from 10:30 - 3:30, followed by an action planning exercise. I do find it interesting th

Re: Conference on healthy organizations, paradox R us...

2002-09-11 Thread Meg Salter
Probably not !! - altho' I'm interested in seeing that such conferences are being held. I know of Glenda Eoyang, one of their faculty. She has a book out, "Facilitating Organizational Change: Lessons from Complexity Science", part of the Practicing OD series, that is pretty good. That is, I found t

Re: I just discovered Reed's Law

2002-09-11 Thread Nino Novak
Thank you, Chris, for this nice explanation of the potential of the internet (or any other event/setting where people have the possibility to "form groups"). The next step should be to examine the enhancement of group formation due to specific setting details. What makes the difference between th

OS and storytype drafting

2002-09-11 Thread Malay Biswas
dear all, My understanding on os is very basic, primary, theoretical. And not undergone any basic training on OS and not experienced it yet. Next two months, i will be undergoing two perhaps. I was reading the minutes of different os sessions (Previous OSonOS)- some of the topic are close to my h

Re: I just discovered Reed's Law

2002-09-11 Thread Ralph Copleman
On 9/11/02 1:12 PM, "Chris Corrigan" wrote: > "Ah well," you can say. "That's only 4,083 possible groups that might > form today for each session. Do you think we need more breakout > spaces?" THAT DOES IT!! I'm NEVER opening space for more than one person ever again!!! Ralph Copleman * * ==

Re: Map of the World

2002-09-11 Thread Pannwitz, Michael M
Hi, Gerard Muller, Chili has been on the map and is also in the list of at present 75 countries. You can view the map either at www.michaelmpannwitz.de/openspace_map.htm (here you also find instructions on how to include the map in your own website with it being automatically updated when new count

I just discovered Reed's Law

2002-09-11 Thread Chris Corrigan
Many of you with more mathematical minds than I probably know about Reed's Law, but for those who don't, what I discovered today when I was reading an article on how the PR industry is trying to sell bio-technology is: "Dr. David P. Reed, former vice president and chief scientist for Lotus Develop

Re: The Practice of Peace

2002-09-11 Thread Jim Metcalf
Harrison, Please send me the draft as a Word document. I appreciate OS as an avenue to peace on several levels. Thank you for all you have done through OS to make my life better. Peace and joy, Jim -Original Message- From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of Harri