Re: Thanksgiving Day, Family and Science

2010-11-26 Thread Franklin Quijano
Endless debt of gratitude to you Lisa, Gail, Harrison, Everyone in the OS Community. Words may not be enough but they are said as a good start: Thank you. All the best. Franklin From: Lisa Heft To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Sent: Friday, November 26, 2

My First(ish) Open Space.

2010-11-26 Thread Blundell, Keith
Dear All, Many months ago I asked for some help on running an OS session - so firstly I would like to thank those who responded and especially those who gave up their time to speak and meet with me to answer all my questions. Since then I have been suggesting that this may be a valuable way of

Re: My First(ish) Open Space.

2010-11-26 Thread Chris Corrigan
Well done Keith, and thanks so much for sharing the insights with us. The resiliant nature of OST is what I love about it too. You can throw huge levels of chaos and uncertainty at it and people will reform in the way they need to do deal with what they need to deal with. I have had many expe

Re: My First(ish) Open Space.

2010-11-26 Thread Lisa Heft
Keith - congratulations on your learning journey and thank you for sharing this story. It makes me think of a story that Jeff Aitken shared with me about huge events happening in the middle of an Open Space on Open Space conference, was it? Big shocking world event happening in some partic

Re: My First(ish) Open Space.

2010-11-26 Thread Harrison Owen
Keith - Bloody Good Show! -- you might say. And when it comes to agility, it seems like OS can help people move in useful ways. Perhaps it is unique to the Pharma Folks (don't think so) but some years ago I opened some space for Park-Davis (that dates it J) - 500 researchers on their Strategic Rese