Small systems large systems

[Meg Salter]

Laura and all

I too have found that with smaller groups, the tendency is for both the
people and the topics to converge. People seem to need to"bond" together,
either because they are the "only" ones there, or in some cases, because
there are sound organizational reasons for doing so - like they will have to
work together later!!

Meg Salter

MegaSpace Consulting
meg.salter at sympatico.ca

----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Ferretti" <dferrett at PLACER.CA.GOV>
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Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 6:45 PM
Subject: Small systems large systems


> 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
>
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Subject: Re: Small systems large systems
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I just led an 1.5 day Open Space for 8 people, a staff team.  I thought they
might stay in one group but proceeded into a number of discussion groups on
various issues.  When it came to be time for convergence (last 3 hours),
they did want to stay together and deal with the priority topics
sequentially.  This worked really well for them.

Larry

Larry Peterson
Associates in Transformation
41 Appleton Ave.,
Toronto, ON, Canada, M6E 3A4
416.653.4829
Fax 416.653.0609

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