Small systems large systems

[Harrison Owen]

At 03:45 PM 4/16/01 -0700, you wrote:
>Laura,
>
>I had a similar experience when I opened space for five people and then
>for 10 people. Both times they stayed in one group and either dealt with
>each topic in some logical order or merged topics as they went along. I
>wonder if there is a reason why small complex adaptive systems behave that
>way and larger systems split.
>
>Don

My single experience with a group of 5 was not intentional. Like Laura, I
expected more and five showed up. But -- whoever comes is the right people.
And so we proceeded. Worked like usual. Even to the point that the group
worked in every permutation of 5 possible (2/2/1,  2/3, all 5 etc) My
wonder was that from the point of view of the dynamics of the group -- it
was all identical to a much larger group. Go figure...

Harrison

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