Fw: Change Management

[Ilse Debler]

Dear Michael

Well, my book says on page one in chapter heart that peace within myself is
essential for radiating peace in my surroundings.
Bless your 'theory', experience and wit, the depth of an old warriors
wisdom...
They stand solid as a rock against the tidal waves that had almost thrown me
off board, feeling I'll never know enough tools, intimidated as I was at the
first sight of things other people had already thought of and done or/and on
offer...
Now I remember (smriti!) once more again I'm a toolbook myself and at the
very moment I see there aren't any external tools suitable or available
anymore, creativity carries me away and I become the evaporated spray of
those waves, transcending outer limitations and be free to change
perspectives and CREATE or just BE. Very liberating indeed.
Thanks for the hint!

~ Ilse, greeting from Hamburg


BTW - how come replying to your mail does not automatically go out to the
list?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Pannwitz, Michael M" <mmpanne at snafu.de>
To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 6:53 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: Change Management


> Dear Ilse,
> "in my book" is an expression similar to "if you ask me" or "in my
> opinion" or "from my experience".
> "My book" is a synonym for my experience and possible insights,
> opinions, percepts.
> Its a little bigger than any written book, I would think.
> And everyone of us has a huge one at her disposal.

> To your question about "Change Management":
> Change (in my book) is one of the characteristics of systems
> (biological, physical, social..) that occurs without any "agent"
> (least of all consultants) acting on it, similar to selforganisation
> (there is a huge conference going on in Vienna with the title
> "Organizing organisations" in memory of Heinz von Förster...I assume
> another oxymoron, would be nice to hear what Heinz would have to say
> to that one.
> No change, no life.
> Management (in my book) is a more or less sophisticated approach to
> tinkering with all kinds of tools (wonderfully collected for instance
> by my friend Holger Nauheimer in his amazing website) to somehow
> influence, direct etc. the phenomenon of change. Its a highly paid
> and broadly accepted methodology which (in my book) tends to create
> more problems than it sets out to solve. In that way, it stays in
> business.
> Trying to manage something like change is like trying to manage
> transformation, ocean waves, volcanoes, revolutions, the weather,
> grief, love, the Fall of the Wall, feeding New York, redirecting the
> Gulf Stream, etc.
> Management, looking at it that way, derives from a paradigm heavy
> with technology, cause and effect, linearity, control quite distinct
> from a paradigm closer to attributes such as unpredictable, chaotic,
> confusing, conflicting...the forces interacting to achieve higher
> levels of order and creativity all by themselves.

> >From an "open space-mentality", the stance would be that of witness
> in the face of change (witness might be perceived as an alien in a
> management culture).
> Considering that we have something called "open space-technology", we
> can practice being "facilitator" or "witness" with a heavy emphasis
> on working as little as possible, not intervening, not fixing things
> that aint broke and in general staying out of the way. That seems to
> be closer to the nature of systems than managing.
> And here is another thought:
> This stuff is pretty theoretical.
> So whats the use.
> I find that having a theory can be very practical.
> Its like a set of glasses, or a grid or a system of questions for my
> practice.
> Greetings from Berlin
> mmp
>
>
>
> On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 23:31:50 +0100, Ilse Debler wrote:
>
> >Subject: Re: Change Management
> >
> >
> >> Dear Michael
> >>
> >> Which of your books are you talking about and could you please - if
that
> >is
> >> possible - explain in a few words why you think 'Change Mangement' is
an
> >> Oxymoron?
> >>
> >> kind regards, Ilse
>
>
>
>
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