Regular OS meetings

2000-06-08 Thread Jim Clark
I have been using OS in my company for various meetings (usually 2 to 3 days) and it has been well received. While talking to our General Manager about the format of our monthly department head meetings, I suggested using Open Space. In the past the format has been like this: An email goes out t

Re: Regular OS meetings

2000-06-08 Thread romy shovelton
Message text written by OSLIST >>A VERY LITTLE CASE STUDY: using Open Space in a ONE hour meeting - >(Harrison you might be horrified.! - I hope not) ** Absolutely NOT horrified.< Thanks Harrison... at least my little note prompted some more wisdom for us all fr

Re: Regular OS meetings

2000-06-08 Thread Harrison Owen
At 11:18 PM 6/7/00 -0400, Romy wrote: >A VERY LITTLE CASE STUDY: using Open Space in a ONE hour meeting - >(Harrison you might be horrified.! - I hope not) ** Absolutely NOT horrified. My personal practice of going for longer Open Spaces relates to 2 factors. First

Regular OS meetings

2000-06-07 Thread romy shovelton
Jimbo a few thoughts: >1. In the past, getting from the opening to the first session takes about an hour (we have two languages to go through, English and Chinese). That seems quite long for a regular meeting, particularly one that we should be shooting for about 2 hours max for the time "when