Last reminder...come to OSonOS
Bryan Kidd
bryan at hyteam.com.au
Mon Aug 30 16:07:05 PDT 1999
I feel that this would be a wonderful event, but, alas, other committments
preclude me from attending.
> Just a last reminder. Come to...
>
> THE SEVENTH ANNUAL OPEN SPACE on OPEN SPACE
> Worldwide Practitioners' Conference
> Chicago, IL USA - September 25-28
As I am relatively new to OST, I am wondering two things:
Firstly, are reports from the conference placed on the OST web site?
Secondly, is there an opportunity to be remotely involved in some way?
E-Mail, Listserv, Web-Board, Chat room, Form-mail? This sets me thinking
about making the conference truly 'worldwide' with concurrent regional
conferences! Or is this already happening?
Cheers.
Bryan.
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"For self is a sea boundless and measureless" - Kahlil Gibran
Bryan Kidd
HyPerformance Team Works
Melbourne Australia
bryan at hyteam.com.au
>From Tue Aug 31 11:02:10 1999
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hello bryan,
yes, the proceedings from the event will (at some point) be available on
the
web ...and your thoughts about worldwide are on target too. what we
have here
on the listserve and on the new website are in line with this. what
makes
osonos special is the face-to-face time. i think that the face to face
time,
even with a small slice of the worldwide community helps sustain all the
other
e-distance stuff throught hte rest of the year. sorry we'll miss you
this
year, but hope you'll send a friend and try to join us next year... or
OT... or
at a workshop with harrison or others.... in the meantime, we'll do
what we
can to bring the face-to-face experience online... though the live stuff
is so
much fun that we won't have much time for e-stuff DURING the conference.
best for now, m
Bryan Kidd wrote:
> I feel that this would be a wonderful event, but, alas, other
committments
> preclude me from attending.
>
> > Just a last reminder. Come to...
> >
> > THE SEVENTH ANNUAL OPEN SPACE on OPEN SPACE
> > Worldwide Practitioners' Conference
> > Chicago, IL USA - September 25-28
>
> As I am relatively new to OST, I am wondering two things:
> Firstly, are reports from the conference placed on the OST web site?
> Secondly, is there an opportunity to be remotely involved in some way?
> E-Mail, Listserv, Web-Board, Chat room, Form-mail? This sets me
thinking
> about making the conference truly 'worldwide' with concurrent regional
> conferences! Or is this already happening?
>
> Cheers.
>
> Bryan.
>
>
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> **************
> "For self is a sea boundless and measureless" - Kahlil Gibran
>
> Bryan Kidd
> HyPerformance Team Works
> Melbourne Australia
> bryan at hyteam.com.au
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Michael Herman
...inviting results in evolving organizations
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>From Wed Sep 1 20:27:57 1999
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okay, i'm back... whoa!
should add, too, that i'm back from 10 days with his holiness the dalai lama...
so i do got Spirit!
been reading mostly quietly, savoring this whole unfolding, and still have much
more to read, but i did want to jump into the lobbying game...
for me, calling what is emerging the open space org seems destined to push
practitioners, in some cases devotees, of other processes away. let me explain
my alternative...
last february fast company printed a cover story "how digital is your
company". they said that every time you change the strategic question, you
have to rethink the four basics of business: finance, talent, customers and
speed. they said that THE strategic question once was 'what business are you
in?' then 'what's your business model?' and today, TA-DA... 'how digital is
your org?' BUT they said that the best companies today were doing the digital
question fifteen years ago.
so i go back to my little harrison/ken wilber/angeles arrien-inspired model. i
map the four basics pretty easily onto the four conditions for open space, the
fourfold way and wilbers four quadrants -- BUT what i really want to know is
what is the NEXT strategic question that the next round of best orgs are
working on NOW?
'how inviting is your org?' is what i come up with. what i'm suggesting in my
own writings these days is that the successor to the 'learning organization' is
the 'inviting organization' which operates in open space, but doesn't need the
name 'open space' any more. what's more, the coolest thing to me is that while
we must DO things at work, but we want to BE inspirited there, too...
'inviting' is something we can do AND be, as people, managers, organizations,
whatever, anytime... and the result looks like open space everytime, with or
without the technology part. i'm now describing my work as a practice in
invitation and have started to post some things about this in the forums at
global chicago.
<http://www.globalchicago.net/forums> (in the 'inviting orgs' forum)
so, one vote for 'the inviting organization'...and now back to my reading!
michael
Birgitt Bolton wrote:
> Harrison,
> Having just cautioned that people might have a struggle if we mention Spirit
> on the website, and I don't disagree with that, I am sure your usual sense
> of humour has kicked in here when you say that the new title of your coming
> book has shifted from "Organization for a New Millennium: Self-Organization
> at
> Work." to -- "Spirit in Organizations --
> Opening Space for Inspired Performance." I am still lobbying you to simply
> call it the Open Space Organization. This is simpler. Then people who really
> are passionate about the current concepts of self organization can get
> excited when they get to that part, and others who get excited about Spirit
> can get excited about that part, and those who know that the two are really
> about the same thing can also get fulfilled. You have tackled a hard subject
> and done an excellent job, final edit not withstanding. I just think your
> book is really about the Open Space Organization and none of us really knows
> why it works. I think we can say that we observe self organizing within the
> context of the Open Space event. I think we can say that there are moments
> of self organizing within the Open Space Organization. I think too that we
> have seen inspired performance. I am not sure that inspired performance and
> the self organizing system are one and the same. Although both and are
> elements of some bigger unknown mystery. Of life. How's that for lobbying
> :-)?
>
> Warmest regards,
> Birgitt
>
--
Michael Herman
...inviting results in evolving organizations
Michael Herman Associates
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Chicago IL 60610
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312-280-7837 fax
mherman at globalchicago.net
The Global Chicago Network
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Michael Herman Associates
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>From Wed Sep 1 20:28:22 1999
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hello birgitt and everyone,
okay. i have to admit that i've been
reading all this about self orgainzation
while not totally remembering what it is
that i wrote in the 'what is open space'
page of the website. so i finally go
check and now i have to ask what might
be a very funny question, but will you,
Birgitt, please go to the openspaceworld
site and click the 'what is open space'
link on the homepage and post here the
first paragraph or two of what you
find? and then click 'reload' button
and see if it changes. i'm wondering if
you're not looking at harrison's self
org article that has since been
relocated?????? as it stands now, i
don't find what it is that began this
whole, amazing, wonderful,
self-organizing adventure. seems funny
that i was in the center of building the
whole thing and can't find the pages
that are causing the stir! :-)
on the edge of my seat, m
--
Michael Herman
...inviting results in evolving
organizations
Michael Herman Associates
300 West North Avenue #1105
Chicago IL 60610
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mherman at globalchicago.net
The Global Chicago Network
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Michael Herman Associates
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>From Wed Sep 1 20:29:24 1999
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hello again,
sheila isakson's quotes remind me that
emery and trist studied and documented 4
org/social 'environments' that
progressed like this:
1. random -- no planning possible, same
as harrisons "reactive"
2. clustered -- planning, learning
possible
3. disturbed, reactive -- competitve,
systems bumping into systems
4. turbulent -- adaptive, permanent
whitewater, and i think the equivalent
to OS and the OS org
in the stuff i got from merrelyn emery
in her workshop, she had pencilled in a
fifth: "vortical" but said it wasn't
sustainable, but definitly showed up at
times. academic language kept her/them
from saying "spirit" but this seems
exactly what their talking about, to
me. i map these five onto
matter-body-mind-soul-spirit... and the
neatest thing for me is that the
academics' use of vortical fits
perfectly with what we've all
heard/said: "i was going to use the law
of two feet, but i just got 'sucked'
into this conversation over there..."
m
p.s. -- sorry to be catching up on all
of this at once, but how to ignore all
this stuff?????? :-)
--
Michael Herman
...inviting results in evolving
organizations
Michael Herman Associates
300 West North Avenue #1105
Chicago IL 60610
312-280-7838 voice
312-280-7837 fax
mherman at globalchicago.net
The Global Chicago Network
http://www.globalchicago.net
Michael Herman Associates
http://www.globalchicago.net/mha
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