Re: Help for my manager, (Crazy like a fox)

2005-02-24 Thread Funda Oral
RE: Help for my manager, (Crazy like a fox)" I sometimes think that people are positively frightened to death that they might succeed "..wrote Harrison such a silence and confusion reading this sentence, and so funny to think about that thank you "and yet in the name of preservation of power

Re: research

2005-02-24 Thread Lucas Gonzalez
> Also, are there any research protocols out there? Or ideas that you > wish someone would research? I don't know if I've shared this small idea here, but one possibility might be to use webcams from above, so you may follow the behaviour of bumblebees and butterflies - all without distracting th

Re: research

2005-02-24 Thread chris macrae
-Original Message- From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of Marty Boroson Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 12:25 PM To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Subject: research I am curious to know what academic research is being done/has been done on OST ... Also, are

a couple of errors

2005-02-24 Thread catherine carmody
Hi everybody: My editing skills didn't kick in today and I now am aware that there are a couple of typos in the note I sent this afternoon re the conference in Toronto, Canada. First of all, for those who couldn't read the text in the box concerning the conference, the web link is www.wel-syst

research

2005-02-24 Thread Marty Boroson
I am curious to know what academic research is being done/has been done on OST ... Also, are there any research protocols out there? Or ideas that you wish someone would research? Thanks, Marty Boroson * * == osl...@listserv.boisestate.

Re: DesignShop and Group Genius

2005-02-24 Thread Harrison Owen
You are right Chris -- really good stuff. I particularly liked -- "Cutting down to ten hours on the last day means we lose 20% of the result of that one day. No-you lose 80% of the total result. He's not seeing the effect on the brain, the nonlinearity of the situation, the discontinuity of the re

Re: research

2005-02-24 Thread Harrison Owen
Oh Lucas -- you are dreaming a dream I have dreamed for years. And we almost pulled it off. Here is the idea -- In most large dome stadiums they have a marvelous wide angle camera suspended from the roof. So we do a large Open Space in such a place and run the camera from start to finish. Let's sa

Fw: e-card for May Conference

2005-02-24 Thread catherine carmody
MessageHi everybody: Given the conversation on this list including that concerning the "new science", and a reference to Humberto Maturana and his Biology of Cognition, I thought that information on the upcoming conference might be of interest to many. The Wel-Systems Institute in Ottawa, Cana

Re: DesignShop and Group Genius

2005-02-24 Thread Chris Corrigan
That was exactly the part I thought you might like... Cheers, Chris - CHRIS CORRIGAN Consultation - Facilitation Open Space Technology Weblog: http://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot Site: http://www.chriscorrigan.com * *

Re: research

2005-02-24 Thread Harrison Owen
There is virtually no research being done on Open Space which is strange considering all the talk and interest in self-organizing systems. In light of this fact a delightful crew from Canada with a few US folks has made useful steps to take matters in their own hands. A small college in Toronto hos

DesignShop and Group Genius

2005-02-24 Thread Chris Corrigan
Hi folks: A while ago we had a conversation here about MGTaylor's DesignShop process. Today I found this link http://www.foresight.org/SrAssoc/99Gathering/lta_chapter03.html which has a lot of insight both into the DesignShop process, but also into why things like time matter in processes like th

Re: Help for my manager, (Crazy like a fox)

2005-02-24 Thread Harrison Owen
Mike Wrote: I have thought about this phenomenon a great deal, as I live in an org and with the stench of dead moose all around! I think perhaps people are comfortable with the stink as long as they can hold onto their ego, power or control. When we as an org use less open formats for our meetings

Re: New Face in the World Map

2005-02-24 Thread TYASTO
Dear Funda, I welcome you to work with me and invite your other turkish colleagues to introduce OST at the 7th Global Leadership Forum in Istanbul 22-24th of June. Me and Jan Secor of Seattle will give a workshop and we hope to have time for OST meeting with all participants. At the beginning ther

Re: Between stimulus and response

2005-02-24 Thread Judi Richardson
Welcome out of lurking, George -- Interesting the quote you mention from Covey. It is referring to the heart of meditation, Asian martial arts, indeed all contemplative practices. In my work with native communities, wisdom traditions, and shamanic societies -- it is as we say a "given"! warmly,

Re: Help for my manager, (Crazy like a fox)

2005-02-24 Thread Mike Copeland
Good on ya Michael! Great stuff I loved the way you put it: when we look in to the usual rhetoric, I find that lots of folks just can't defend or explain it. often folks end up using the empty standards as if they were true. You have put very beautifully a phenomenon I experience also when deal

Re: Between Stimulus and Response

2005-02-24 Thread Glory Ressler
George: Your post has lured me out of many months of lurking slumber...Thanks! I resonate with your comments and my previous gestalt training taught much the same... Awareness and acceptance of as much of the polarities/boundaries of the group/individual choices/self leads to 'the creative poin