OST vs OD

[Joelle Lyons Everett]

Meg--

Great question, and I like the comments from Winston and Michael H.

Harrison led a very large Open Space conference as one day of the ODN
national conference in Baltimore in 1994.  So it has been on the radar screen
at some point.

For experienced OD consultants and conventional facilitators, OS requires a
certain amount of unlearning, willingness not to be in control of outcomes,
and other risky behaviors.  Some of us find that a lot more fun than OD!

As far as theory goes, it informs my practice, but the client is almost never
interested in the theory.  They are interested in what happens in their
organization in OS and after, and as Michael points out, OS is very congenial
to doing something.

OS is not the only approach I use in my practice.  But some of the others are
getting to look more like OS as time goes on.

Joelle

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>From  Thu Sep 26 20:29:50 2002
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In response to Easther's observation (I enjoyed your new site - I have only
one suggestion. The words do not wrap
so that you don't have to scroll from left to right) the easiest way I know
to do this is to put the text in a table, if necessary a one column by one
row table.

Martin*

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>From  Thu Sep 26 20:29:52 2002
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My explanation is that a lot of people understand the systems and/or
complexity view of the world cognitively, but their habits are firmly locked
in the 'world is a machine' view, which is all about being an engineer,
solving problems, keeping the machine running, having a fancy toolbox,
looking like a good engineer. OS isn't fancy enough and doesn't fit into the
toolbox.

Martin*

Martin Leith, Catalyst
Creating a rapid shift from now to new
(Download info pack: www.martinleith.com/martin/martin.doc)
17 Bedford Street, Brighton BN2 1AN, United Kingdom
Phone 01273 675322 (+44 1273 675322)  Mobile 07808 773713 (+44 7808 773713)
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