OST vs OD

[Meg Salter]

I have a provocative (?!) question.

How come OS never makes it onto the Organizational Development radar screen?

I've just checked out the big OD conference in Montreal this October, bringing in Fritjof Capra, Meg Wheatley, and lots of folks talking about complex adaptive, chaordic systems.... and how to create them (what a non-sequitur that is!)  www.odnetwork.org/conf2002/index.html
And Chris brought our attention to a Plexus institute on complexity etc. with no mention of OS. So the theory behind complexity and self-organization is becoming quite popular.

So why is it that such a simple, widely practiced and successful "approach" such as OS - which is self-organization in action and has been talked/ written about as such (HO) - never gets talked about? or simply ignored? Is it too threatening? Is it hard to be a typical guru and do the speaker circuit thing? Or is it just most of these folks are doing the same old thing (you know - being the expert) but speaking new language?

Something in my gut is really sticking on this one.........!

Meg Salter

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