SV: OSO and chaordic commons

Thomas Herrmann thomas at openspaceconsulting.com
Tue Mar 19 02:47:54 PST 2002


Hi Jeff and everybody else
Thanks for this interesting conversation.
Last thursday I went to bed reading a management magazine. Found an
interesting article about a company which has developed a teambased
organization. The employees run business more or less "on their own". Friday
morning one of the participants from our last Open Space training called and
invited me to a lecture-kind-of-gathering with a chairman of the board in a
interesting company. ...which turned out to be the very same. Oaaoo!

The group of 20 (mainly managers) had an interesting day yesterday as this
man told the story. I guess quite close to OSO. He also referred to Dee Hock
so I´m sure he had some influences from this chaordic stuff, which I have
not really understood. It seems to me they have done a really good job, but
as Harisson puts it they did not bring "the bacon" home. They have worked
for years to create this organization. It seems to be working a lot better
than most organizations, revenues raise and employees cue for employment in
the company. Anyway I am sure that OST/OSO could make a hugh difference. I
talked a bit with this man and he is interested in learning more.

They have already managed to get the employees to be really participative,
taking responsability and work with passion. The whole organization could
work even smoother giving space for more of selforganizing processes,
without trying to manage them.

I think Open Space as well as Whole Person Process Facilitation would be
extremely helpful to develope this company even further and hopefully I will
have a chance to present my thoughts to this company soon. Quite exciting
all this!
Cheers and greetings Thomas Herrmann


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> Från: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU]För Jeff Aitken
> Skickat: den 13 mars 2002 22:49
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> Ämne: OSO and chaordic commons
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>
> Christine, thanks for your OSLIST story on work with the girl
> scouts. I'm
> interested in anything you see connecting OST/OSO and
> chaordic design --
> that you will publish in the commons.
>
> I'm involved in a network of watershed-health groups on the northern
> california coast - meeting these days to talk about a chaordic design
> process to develop a stronger & wider network, with the guidance of a
> friend who's quite excited about the chaordic commons but not
> a designer of
> processes.
>
> I come to this with OST/OSO interest -- I'd just as soon see
> the network
> use OST and become an OSO so to speak -- but willing to try
> to figure out
> how to design and facilitate a chaordic process.
>
> Does this make sense? Any thoughts?
>
> warmly
> Jeff
>
> -
> Jeff Aitken
> Collaboration Consultant: Specialist in Open Space Process
> 1281 Burnside Road, Sebastopol CA 95472 USA
> 707-829-8256
> mailto:JA at svn.net
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