Please, no DOC files! (was: Ralph's poetry)

2001-03-22 Thread Christoph J.W. Schmees
At 17:19 21.3.2001 -0500, you wrote: >For all who may be interested, please open the attached flyer, which >includes ordering information and a couple of excerpts. Please let me quote a message posted to the list Nov. 15, 2000: Dear all, may I draw your attention to a never ending story. The ti

Re: Fw: How to unsubscribe

2001-03-21 Thread Christoph J.W. Schmees
... or just follow the instruction trailing *every* message published in this group... cu, Christoph At 10:16 21.3.2001 -0800, you wrote: >Since this comes up from time to time, here are the instructions from Murli. > >Chris -- how about adding this to the FAQ? > >Peggy > > >- Original Messa

Re: Prof. Ilya Prigogine

2001-02-02 Thread Christoph J.W. Schmees
At 16:37 1.2.2001 -0500, Harrison wrote: ((...)) For me, chaos and order are both abstractions and neither exist in a pure sense. They are actually "pointers" to a polar (dialectical) framework which might look something like the following: chaos< --- life --->order. The suggestion is that lif

Re: Ilya Prigogine / Chaos / Organisations

2001-02-01 Thread Christoph J.W. Schmees
Hi Artur, At 01:29 1.2.2001 +, you wrote: At 01:41 01-02-2001 +0100, Christoph J.W. Schmees wrote: In the first place there is no connection between choas theory (fractals, Julia sets, bifurcation, you name it) and Prigogine's work What do you mean by "there are no connect

Re: Prof. Ilya Prigogine

2001-02-01 Thread Christoph J.W. Schmees
At 23:58 31.1.2001 +, you wrote: At 18:05 31-01-2001 -0500, Harrison Owen wrote: I suspect this can be very important to other questions we have discussed here, namely, that "normal organizations" are "constrained systems", that are in a sort of "equilibrium". So they DO NOT evidence the c

Fwd: agree

2001-01-18 Thread Christoph J.W. Schmees
message forwarded: From: =?iso-8859-2?Q?Beck_Gy=F6rgy?= To: Subject: agree Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 10:10:44 +0100 Dear Christoph, I completely agree. Because of some reasons I could not have my mail below published at the OSLIST. In the most recent digest there has been repeated Chris Corrig

History repeating... (was: New Commers - Rotary Clubs of West Siberia)

2001-01-17 Thread Christoph J.W. Schmees
At 10:26 17.1.2001 +0600, Elena A. Marchuk wrote: ... I'm sorry for the attachment, I discovered that I forgot to attach it first and started to do this: I wanted to send 4 pictures and a small text. But when I started sending I discovered that it would be more then 4 MB so I stopped sendin

Re: Leadership and Vision (was: Productive Chaos)

2001-01-12 Thread Christoph J.W. Schmees
((Qoute omitted this time)) Chris, by and by things we are discussing become clearer for me. Perhaps we come from different backgrounds, with different experiences. I have spent my time in industry large and stiff. Can it be that the rules or laws of OST are not applicable to each end every orga

Re: Leadership and Vision (was: Productive Chaos)

2001-01-11 Thread Christoph J.W. Schmees
Certainly positions in hierarchical structure each carry predefined responsibilities. And I do not consider hierarchical structure to be antithetical to an Open Space (or InterActive) Organization; I believe that hierarchy and InterActivity (emergent leadership) can exist simultaneously. Com

Re: Leadership and Vision (was: Productive Chaos)

2001-01-11 Thread Christoph J.W. Schmees
At 23:12 10.1.2001 +, you wrote: > First - The system has to be far from equilibrium. You need an excess of > energy, and a clear direction of energy flow. In social systems: You need a > leader with a vision and the ability to transport the vision to his people. > Call it CI, call it mission

Re: Productive Chaos

2001-01-10 Thread Christoph J.W. Schmees
At 08:19 10.1.2001 -0800, you wrote: Christoph, Your question: What conditions are necessary to enable a productive chaos? What skills does a leader need to create and maintain(!) those conditions? Where is the right balance between control and let loose? Which factors determine this balance?

Re: Dear OSLIST

2001-01-10 Thread Christoph J.W. Schmees
Dear Esther and Dear all, ... Stuff happens and whatever happens is the only thing that could! (So you deny the free will, and hence any responsibility of man? :-) ... I would add another which is that when someone joins the list, it would be great if they could be prompted to introduce them

Re: PDF--Request for Support--Volunteer Consulting in Russia

2001-01-09 Thread Christoph J.W. Schmees
Bob and everyone else to whom it may concern, Outside of the US many people pay to their internet provider the *time* they are connected. An attachment of more than 300kB divided by transfer rate multiplied by charge multiplied by number of people affected - that sums up to quite a substancial am

Re: Virus warning!!!!!!!!

2000-12-02 Thread Christoph J.W. Schmees
At 14:54 2.12.2000 +0530, Ms. Janet Pinto wrote: according to my viruswatch the attachment contains a Virus!! Don't open it. Just delete the message. cu, Christoph * * == osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change yo

Re: DOC files and Open Souce Software

2000-11-15 Thread Christoph J.W. Schmees
At 19:26 14.11.2000 +, you wrote: That's true. I think we should use RTF format. I normally don't open Doc files. I made an exception in this case. And I have always a very recent version of an anti-virus, but in some cases this is not enough... ... Again, I would suggest we use all the

Re: Open Space in Brasil and Africa - please no DOC files!

2000-11-12 Thread Christoph J.W. Schmees
Dear all, may I draw your attention to a never ending story. The title is: "Two good reasons #not# to send documents in a proprietary file format." Most users arent' aware of the risks they take, nor how easy the remedy is. Let me contribute to a little more awareness and knowledge. 1. *.DOC f