Unbearable lightness of open management

[Birgitt Williams]

MessageChris,
Many of us have had great success by providing the prospective client with a
list of large group methodologies. An excellent resource in a nice table is
on Martin Leith's site www.martinleith.com . I use one of his handouts, I
quote from The Change Handbook by Peggy Holman and Tom Devane
(Berrett-Koehler, 1999) and I refer them to Large Group Interventions by
Billie Alban and Barbara Bunker (Jossey Bass, 1997). It all makes a great
business case. And then I let them know that my favorite method is OST
because my clients have had the greatest benefit from the most open of the
methods.

I also believe in "selling" benefits rather than methods.

Blessings to you and to all with whom you make Genuine Contact,

Birgitt

Birgitt Williams of Dalar International Consultancy
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  From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU]On Behalf Of chris
macrae
  Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 2:40 PM
  To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
  Subject: Unbearable lightness of open management


  My research of human resource and OD types interaction with OS (primarily
in UK) has begun and initial patterns suggest these 3 blocks:

  1.Corporations- haven’t heard of OS



  2.Consultants - Aware but (block loop 1) wouldn’t know how to sell  lack
of structure, NB opposite to what clients expect in 2 senses : a) what they
do with their people normally, b) what they pay facilitators to actively
facilitate



  3. Aware but (block loop 2) wouldn’t know how to market as a core method
of my career as a facilitator – take so much time to propose with so little
days work back etc



  I guess this isn’t big news to many alumni here, but has there been a
recent debate on whether there are any newly emerging ways to bust these
blocks?



  A very small idea might be if we could come up with 9 other open methods
as a top of 10 of open. Perhaps if everyone in corporations could recognise
that innovation and self-organising depends on at least one open method they
already know, one could cross-fertilise the whole family. Do you have any
open methods to add to this top 10 shopping list (if indeed you agree that
items appearing are all open)





  “Unbearable lightness of open management”- 10 most open methods of
innovating

  1 open space

  2 email (fully developed use of virtual teams, practice communities,
personal networks)

  3 grounded theory (being an iterative opinion research method which starts
with a blank canvass rather than conventional wisdom on issue of inquiry)

  4 storytelling as iterative process in systemising communal energy,
emotional participation

  -survey what’s our greatest story

  -see if people really participate in it

  -see what change it systemically connects with



  sincerely

  Chris Macrae, wcbn007 at easynet.co.uk, www.valuetrue.com 2004 Year of
Transparency



  Although nobody has filled it in yet, there is also an open format of the
mini-survey I have been carrying out at


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