A Perplexing Problem

[David Cox]

Open Space Colleagues:

I need the benefit of your thinking.

Let's suppose members (with passion and responsiblity) from two
depts at a university (say A and B) are invited to come together to
work on designing a new curriculum.  The mindset of the dean is to
extend genuine invitations to whomever wants to work on designing
the new program.  But further suppose that dept A wants to house
the program after it's created.  Dept A decides to stack the deck
by sending all of its members to the joint project.

Open Space is built on the premise of inviting people with passion
and responsibility to step forward.  My question is this:  Can Open
Space be sabotaged by organization politics (i.e., turf grabbing)?

I would greatly appreciate your thinking on this question. Thank
you.

Dave Cox