OST vs OD

[Michael Herman]

i love this question, meg.

my short take:  did you ever notice that OD is the opposite
of DO?

my longer take is that openign space is fundamentally a
practice and commitment on the part of leaders to be leaders
of people in motion.  and people in motion do all the things
that happen in os... raising issues, drawing pictures,
combining issues, experimenting with edges, jumping through
them, asking the unspeakable, spearing the immortal, etc.
...but now i also notice that they almost never talk about
complexity, self-organization, chaordic, etc. while they're
busy doing their thing in os!  hmmm....

m



Meg Salter wrote:

> 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.htmlAnd 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 MegaSpace
> Consulting
> 416/486-6660
> meg.salter at sympatico.ca
> www.megaspaceconsulting.com

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