Dear all,
Harrison wrote: "Lots of people "could have come" but only a certain number
really cared (enough) to come."
Is it only about caring? For some it also the opportunity.
So it seems to me that Open Space really starts before the event. And that
all who care are given the real opportunity
or maybe those who couldn't come were:
1) modern day slaves - there's tens of millions of them around the world
2) too hungry and weak to be aware of the meeting and to get there - there's
hundreds of millions or more in this category
3) too humiliated because they were part of the wrong social c
Michaël Molenaar wrote: Is it only about caring? For some it also the
opportunity.
Not to put too fine a point on it -- but at some level I think we make our
own opportunities. I have certainly seen people surmount incredible
obstacles to be where they cared to be. And at the end of the day, that
Open Space really starts before the event
Thanks Michael for that reminder. I've done OS in many organizations where open
space was a way of being introduced into the culture before events and
sustained beyond them. It's fascinating to see how differently people interact
in OS events withi
Dear Lisa and other friends,
I am posting some information on Dr. Akhtar Hameed Khan and Muhammad Yunus.
Lisa, please feel free to write to me off list, in case you wish to continue
this conversation. It may not be of general interest to the list.
Dr. Akhtar Hameed Khan joined the Indian Civi
Harrison - Thanks it's interesting to know that the first open space
beyond the annual event was a commercial innovation area
I have digested pre-work is generally a waste of space. Presumably the
invitation is another topic. I have had the impression that sometimes
you have done quite a lot of wo
Masud Wrote: Do we need to use "right" or "appropriate" for people?
If we say "whatever happened is the only thing that could have happened"
(if I remember the words correctly) why can we not also say; "Whoever came
are the only people who could have come"
I suppose we could -
Congratulations, Jorie and Gail!
Vietnam has now been activated in the World Map.
When you open the map
http://www.openspaceworldmap.org/
click on the search button in the upper right hand corner of the map
enter Vietnam in the vacant box in the search field
and hit search there
your two names appe
Ah Priorities! Balloting! The discussion continues. I think the word for it
is convergence, and from where I sit, convergence is a simple, natural,
human act. After talking about a whole mess of things, it turns out that
some are more important to the assembled group than some others. Of course,
al
As much as it sounds far away, the Chinese problem of translating the "right"
people is the same that I faced when I came to translate it to Arabic. And you
will be surprised to know that everywhere I used OS in Arabic, I used the word
"appropriate" to describe "the right people" because it so
I have a battered old pocket calendar from 1989, which clearly shows that
Harrison conducted an Open Space event in the basement of my old graduate
school on a February weekend in 1989.
Some of our faculty and students participated in the OT conference in San Diego
the year before, and invited
I guess I misunderstood you Chris. The invitation is most important, and
broadly getting the word out is equally critical. But at the end of the day
The Issue is the motivating factor. When you have a real hot one (as
determined by potential participants, and not necessarily by yourself) folks
will
Do we need to use "right" or "appropriate" for people?
If we say "whatever happened is the only thing that could have happened"
(if I remember the words correctly) why can we not also say;
"Whoever came are the only people who could have come"
Masud
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 09:28:45 -0700, Elwin and J
Dear all,
In the CGIAR (Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, 15
centers worldwide funded mainly by the 58 countries, private foundations, and
international organizations) we are making our first exciting experiences with
OS. We used it in the framework of a Knowledge Shari
Apologies if we have asked Harrison this question before
I wanted to write up the extent to which the networking origins of open
space, are different from the focused innovation or conflict resolution
ones
Going back to the 2 Martini story, I understand the first origin of open
space to have been
--- Harrison Owen wrote:
> Idiomatic language is devilishly hard to translate,
> and I suspect idiomatic (colloquial) English is the worst offender.
I
> opted for right = appropriate. Sounded good to me. What do you
> think?
Harrison,
I think you did the "right" thing! Since 90% of my OST i
Thank you, Masud, for the references to the work of Mohammad Younus and
Akhtar Hameed Khan. Are there some articles or other sources that would
give more information about their work?
Too often I think we have the idea that we need to send ideas from the west
(north) to help others and we forget
Dear Lisa,
This is wonderful. I was particularly struck by the comment:
"It use was pioneered in developing countries and has led to sustainable
improvements in seemingly intractable organizational and social issues."
Two examples immediately came to mind: Mohammad Younus in Bangladesh on
micro-cr
I just received this delightful note from Jorie Wu in Taiwan. As you will
see Vietnam is now added to the OS space. Jorie is publishing the Chinese
version of “The User’s Guide,” and her questions about the meaning of
“right” (as in, “Whoever comes is the right people.”) tickled my onion
(made me s
The first time I used Open Space, other than with the International
Symposium on Organization Transformation was with Dupont. It involved some
175 polymer chemists on the re-design of a major product line. That was in
the summer of 1989.
As for pre-work with Open Space, I have never found anythin
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