OST vs OD

[Jeff Aitken]

Meg, I do think that space has been opened at national and regional OD
Network conferences over the years; many OD practitioners have had a taste
of OST.

I am intrigued about Meg Wheatley, for example, who seems to have chosen a
particular process (the "world cafe") as a practical expression of the
self-organization about which she writes and speaks.

In the same way, "chaordic design" is favored by some.

I have chosen OST as the expression of self-organization that I prefer.
Still I have learned from chaordic organization design which has a
perspective that I find different and useful (and is wonderfully
jumpstarted with OST). And now that I have begun to facilitate the world
cafe, I'm learning that I love it also! especially for 2-3 hour meetings.

Thanks for raising your question -- I wonder how this thread will unfold.

Jeff

At 10:31 AM -0400 9/26/02, Meg Salter wrote:
>    I have a provocative (?!) question.   How come OS never makes it onto
>the Organizational  Development radar screen?

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Jeff Aitken
Collaboration consultant: using open space process and world cafe
1281 Burnside Road, Sebastopol CA 95472 USA
(+01) 707-829-8256
http://www.openspaceworld.org
http://www.theworldcafe.com

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