SV: [OSLIST] Fear in the face of an upcoming OST-meeting

Dear Catherine A few years back I had a situation where we had planned a 2 day conference about the future of a company. About a month ahead of the OST conference there was a decision made which meant that about 15% of the staff of 120 would be outsourced – which of course had effects of fear and

Re: HBR article: Moon Shots for Management

Fab, I've just joined, and am looking forward to seeing how it progresses and being part of that. Thank you Jack S On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Jack Martin Leith wrote: > Dear Michael (Wood), Carol (Hiltner), Harrison (the one and only) and > anyone else who's interested in Gary Hamel's Ha

HBR article: Moon Shots for Management

Dear Michael (Wood), Carol (Hiltner), Harrison (the one and only) and anyone else who's interested in Gary Hamel's Harvard Business Review article on reinventing management for the 21st century: I've created the beginnings of a community website here: http://moon-shots.ning.com. This will track p

Re: Fear in the face of an upcoming OST-meeting

Hello Catherine, I also experienced an event that was wrapped in fear. It was a known fact that the organization was being let go, abandoned as it was to merge under a new entity. We had the benefit of having the night before for a wake, a form of story telling as Thomas mentioned. The night of

Re: Fear in the face of an upcoming OST-meeting

Just tell your client to relax and take a deep breath. It's all going to work. The people will be the people, and what you see is what you got. Could be that they will collectively decide to destroy the company, but that is probably not too likely. Of course I do remember a time when a small compan

From Bangkok: Open Space Cartoons and an Open Space Bulletin

Please have a look at this great series of Open Space process cartoons and a bulletin that were produced by our workshop participants after our OS yesterday: http://www.change-management-blog.com/2009/02/open-space-comics-from-our-wor kshop-in.html Regards, Holger * * ===

Vacation reply

I'm out of the office through Feb 20th and will be paying attention to sea turtles and whales rather than email:)  The Turtle   breaks from the blue-blackskin of the water, dragging her shellwith its mossy scutesacross the shallows and through the rushesand over the mudflats, to the uprise,to the y

Re: Fear in the face of an upcoming OST-meeting

Hi Catherine, When I am working with fear in the process of the Work of Byron Katie (an amazing tool for individual fear work and similar to Open Space in some deep ways) - there is a part of the process where one is invited to experience 'who would you be without that thought - in this situation,

Re: An Invitation. . .

Hiya Harrison. Good to hear about your new blog. There's now a link to it from this page of the Osuki website: www.osuki.net/?page_id=6 Looking forward to seeing how it develops! Very best wishes, Jack Jack Martin Leith : Ideas to Success Bristol, United Kingdom Mobile: 07831 840541 (+44 7831

Fear in the face of an upcoming OST-meeting

Dear all Speaking of fear: I happen to prepare for an OST-meeting, in which the participants want to find the new strategy of a small graphics and printing company, which also offers workspaces for handicapped people. The head of the company took part in an OST-meeting in November and decided t

AW: OSLIST Digest - 16 Feb 2009 to 17 Feb 2009 (#2009-43)

Dear Holger, Thanks for sharing. This is so valuable. You are addressing important issues that do bring much to the participants, and you do it in a careful, culturally adequate way. A wonderful example of respect. Love, C. Catherine Pfaehler Senn lic.oec.HSG Open Space Begleitung S

Re: More on Creation

Harrison et al You might be encouraged to hear that we have a couple of teachers in the Business School at the University of WA who are giving students an experience of Open Space as part of certain courses. For example, in one semester, the week before exams a space was opened so the students cou

two bits of bright news...Parker Palmer & Anne Stadler

Greetings All, For those of you who may be interested, this is just a quick note to let you know two bits of bright news. Parker Palmer will be on PBS's

Re: From Bangkok: Open Space Cartoons and an Open Space Bulletin

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