"empowerment" is a disempowering concept

[Harrison Owen]

At 08:59 PM 5/20/2002 -0400, Meg Salter wrote:
>Or to put it in simplest terms - go where it hurts. Which is lots of
>people. Which is what "consultants" typically get asked to do anyway. And
>use language that they can relate to, and which stretches their
>imagination/ spirits. Most of my experiences in corporate "pro-active land
>of control" are not across the organization - but a division or
>department. OS does make a difference, to the people who were touched by
>it, and to how that group of people works. So far as I can tell, the
>organization itself has not changed massively. But I figure that is not up
>to me ("whatever happens...") What I can do is to skip around sewing
>little grains of openness as I go, and when the timing is right... the
>change will happen!
>Meg Salter

I can just see it -- "What I can do is to skip around sewing little grains
of openness as I go, and when the timing is right... the change will
happen!" What a holy terror-- the skipping spacer. And a marvelous strategy.

Harrison

>Harrison Owen

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