boston conference

[Funda Oral]

Lisa,

We don't need your ideas...what we need is welfare....if you really want to
help us.

Funda
from a so called developing country.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lisa Kimball" <lisa at groupjazz.com>
To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 3:40 PM
Subject: Re: boston conference


> Thank you, Masud, for the references to the work of Mohammad Younus and
> Akhtar Hameed Khan.  Are there some articles or other sources that would
> give more information about their work?
>
> Too often I think we have the idea that we need to send ideas from the
west
> (north) to help others and we forget that we could learn from ideas coming
> FROM developing countries.
>
>  * lisa
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU]On Behalf Of Masud
> Sheikh
> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 7:48 AM
> To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
> Subject: Re: [OSLIST] boston conference
>
>
> Dear Lisa,
> This is wonderful. I was particularly struck by the comment:
> "It use was pioneered in developing countries and has led to sustainable
> improvements in seemingly intractable organizational and social issues."
>
> Two examples immediately came to mind: Mohammad Younus in Bangladesh on
> micro-credit. A great man (Akhtar Hameed Khan) now deceased, who pioneered
> some wonderful examples of self-help & community building in Pakistan, and
> earlier in then "East Pakistan" (now Bangladesh).
>
> While I will be unable to come to this conference, I shall probably come
to
> the OS on OS in Halifax, on the east coast of my new homeland - Canada. I
> have no idea how OS on OS runs, and have hardly any real experience of OS.
> But to know more about OS, I can think of nothing better than meeting with
> people who seem to live and breathe OS.
>
> Are you planning to come to Halifax?
>
> Take care, all of you
> Masud
>
> In times of change, the learners will inherit the earth while the learned
> will find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no
> longer exists - Eric Hoffer
>
>  >-----Original Message-----
>  >From: Lisa Kimball [mailto:lisa at groupjazz.com]
>  >Sent: April 11, 2005 11:15 AM
>  >Subject: boston conference
>  >
>  >Hi!  I thought you might be interested in a very intriguing conference
>  >coming up in Boston in June . This 'positive deviance' approach shares a
>  >lot of theoretical roots with appreciative inquiry and complexity
> frameworks and I think is very aligned with some of our thinking in open
> space too!
>  >
>  >From the Inside Out: Uncovering Solutions to Intractable Problems
through
>  >Positive Deviance
>  >Tufts University, Boston, MA
>  >June 28-29, 2005
>  >http://www.plexusinstitute.org
>  >
>  >Positive Deviance, an approach developed over the past fourteen years,
>  >demonstrates that isolated examples of success can be tapped to benefit
an
>  >entire community or organization. Accomplishing this requires a radical
>  >departure from "benchmarking" and "best practice" strategies of change.
>  >
>  >Plexus Institute and The Positive Deviance Initiative at Tufts
University
>  >invite you to explore Positive Deviance with Jerry and Monique Sternin,
>  >leading Positive Deviance (PD) authorities and pioneers, and Arvind
>  >Singhal, a scholar-practitioner on social change, and join with others
who
> are searching for solutions to some of the critical social and
> organizational challenges facing us today.
>  >
>  >The PD approach builds on successful but "deviant" (different) practices
>  >that are identified from within a community or organization. It is based
>  >on the observation that in every group there are certain individuals
whose
>  >uncommon, but demonstrably successful practices or behaviors enable them
>  >to find better solutions than their neighbors or colleagues who have
> access to exactly the same resources. It use was pioneered in developing
> countries and has led to sustainable improvements in seemingly intractable
>  >organizational and social issues.
>  >
>  >The Harvard Business Review features PD in its May 1, 2005 edition. The
>  >approach has also begun to penetrate the corporate consciousness. It was
>  >employed at Goldman Sachs and was instrumental in transforming the
>  >behavior and practice of its nationwide force of investment advisors. It
> has been used to tackle gnarly technical challenges at Hewlett Packard,
and
>  >hospitals have begun to use PD to address quality improvement
challenges.
> And a PD workshop was just held at the January 2005 World Economic Forum
in
> Davos. PD is unlike traditional expert-driven models for social and
> organizational change. Like the human immune system, individuals and
> institutions reject what is perceived as "foreign matter". When "experts"
> provide "best practice" strategies for organizational changes, which are
> externally identified, and "not invented from within", they face
rejection.
> The Positive Deviance approach provides an antidote to the immune system
> defense mechanism; the solution and the host share the same "DNA" and the
> change comes from within. Those in a community or organization are helped
to
> discover the positive deviants in their midst, understand the strategies
> they employ and then create among themselves a process for enrolling the
> larger community in the desired change. Change is from inside out. This
> workshop will provide an overview of how and where PD has been
successfully
> used to address problems requiring social or behavioral change. All
> participants will learn the 4 steps of the PD process design to nurture a
> PD-based change initiative on an issue of importance to them.
>  >
>  >I'd be happy to share more info if you're interested!
>  >
>  >* lisa
>
>  >Lisa kimball
>  >Group Jazz, Suite 440
>  >5335 Wisconsin Ave NW
>  >Washington, DC 20015 USA
>  >P: +1 202.686.4848
>  >F: +1 202.966.3772
>  >E: lisa at groupjazz.com
>  >www.groupjazz.com
>  >
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