Fwd: Re: A Perplexing Problem

[owen]

>Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 17:36:24 -0400
>To: dwcox at PAWNEE.ASTATE.EDU
>From: owen <owen at tmn.com>
>Subject: Re: A Perplexing Problem
>
>At 02:54 PM 9/16/99 -0500, you wrote:
>>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
>***********************************
>I think you would really have to work at the job. But.  If Dept A could
>really keep everybody else away, I suppose it could be done. If I were
>concerned that something like you describe could take place, I guess I would
>just enlarge the invitation list -- extend it to "anybody who cares" --
>students, potential students, folks who might hire the students, folks who
>might work with the students... and anybody else -- just so long as they
>care. Actually, that would be my inclination anyhow -- just to get the
>highest levels of diversity possible, which always improves the end result.
>
>Harrison
>

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