Givens

[Peggy Holman]

>From Larry Peterson:

>The sponsors' intention is a critical part of focusing a space that can be
powerful during and after the gathering,
>particularly in ongoing organizations.


A few years ago, I was working with a planning team who wished to transform
their organization (a research lab) that was losing business.  I offered up
Open Space and every member of the team was all for it but one -- the
director of the organization.  It was in the discussion of the givens that
her reasoning became clear.  Deep in her core, she felt is was her
responsibility to set the organization's direction.  That to "turn it over"
to the people in the organization would be to fail in her responsibility as
a leader.  It was an encounter with a leadership style that I think has past
it's time but nonetheless, it was her reality.  The result: we did not use
Open Space and her planning team, whatever their disappointment appreciated
understanding their boss' perspective.

Peggy

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